Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Carolina Maria de Jesus

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Brazilian journalist Carolina Maria de Jesus.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Carolina Maria de Jesus was a Brazilian outskirts memorialist who lived most of her life as a slum-dweller. She is best known for her diary, published in August 1960 as Quarto de Despejo after attracting the attention of a Brazilian journalist, which became a bestseller and won international acclaim. The work remains the only document published in English by a Brazilian slum-dweller of that period. De Jesus spent a significant part of her life in the Canindé favela in North São Paulo, supporting herself and three children as a scrap collector.

Brazilian - Journalist | March 14, 1914 - 1977

Source: Wikipedia

I adore my black skin and my kinky hair. The Negro hair is more educated than the white man's hair. Because with Negro hair, where you put it, it stays. It's obedient. The hair of the white, just give one quick movement, and it's out of place. It won't obey. If reincarnation exists I want to come back black.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

will there ever be a drama more beautiful than that of eating?

Carolina Maria de Jesus

we are slaves to the cost of living.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

[On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

We have only one way to be born and many ways to die.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

The book is man's best invention so far.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

A child is the root of the heart.

Carolina Maria de Jesus