Cristina Henriquez Quotes

English Was Such A Dense, Tight Language. So Many Hard Letters, Like Miniature Walls. Not Open With Vowels The Way Spanish Was. Our Throats Open, Our Mouths Open, Our Hearts Open. In English, The Sounds Were Closed. They Thudded To The Floor. And Yet, There Was Something Magnificent About It. Profesora Shields Explained That In English There Was No Usted, No Tu. There Was Only One Word - You. It Applied To All People. No One More Distant Or More Familiar. You. They. Me. I. Us. We. There Were No Words That Changed From Feminine To Masculine And Back Again Depending On The Speaker. A Person Was From New York. Not A Woman From New York, Not A Man From New York. Simply A Person.

Cristina Henriquez Quotes: English Was Such A Dense, Tight Language. So Many Hard Letters, Like Miniature Walls. Not Open With Vowels The Way

Cristina Henriquez Quotes: English Was Such A Dense, Tight Language. So Many Hard Letters, Like Miniature Walls. Not Open With Vowels The Way

Cristina Henriquez Quotes: English Was Such A Dense, Tight Language. So Many Hard Letters, Like Miniature Walls. Not Open With Vowels The Way

Cristina Henriquez Quotes: English Was Such A Dense, Tight Language. So Many Hard Letters, Like Miniature Walls. Not Open With Vowels The Way

Cristina Henriquez Quotes: English Was Such A Dense, Tight Language. So Many Hard Letters, Like Miniature Walls. Not Open With Vowels The Way

Cristina Henriquez Quotes: English Was Such A Dense, Tight Language. So Many Hard Letters, Like Miniature Walls. Not Open With Vowels The Way

Cristina Henriquez Quotes: English Was Such A Dense, Tight Language. So Many Hard Letters, Like Miniature Walls. Not Open With Vowels The Way

Cristina Henriquez Quotes: English Was Such A Dense, Tight Language. So Many Hard Letters, Like Miniature Walls. Not Open With Vowels The Way

Cristina Henriquez Quotes: English Was Such A Dense, Tight Language. So Many Hard Letters, Like Miniature Walls. Not Open With Vowels The Way

Cristina Henriquez Quotes: English Was Such A Dense, Tight Language. So Many Hard Letters, Like Miniature Walls. Not Open With Vowels The Way

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