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1 " If we knew how to find the lost, we would know how to rediscover the parts of our mindsleft behindin battle. "
― Margarita Engle , The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
2 " Slavery all day,and then, suddenly, by nightfall- freedom! "
3 " The child tells me her grandmothershowed her how to cure sadness by sucking the juice of an orange, while standing on a beach.Toss the peels onto a wave.Watch the sadness float away. "
4 " Hatred must be a hard thing to learn. "
5 " Can it be true that freedom only exists when it is a treasure, shared by all? "
6 " The Little War?How can there bea little war?Are some deathssmaller than others,leaving motherswho weepa little less? "
7 " The old life is gone, my days are new,but time is still a mysteryof wishes, and this sad, confusing fragrance. " —Rosa "
8 " I can't understand why dark northern soldiers and light ones are separated into different brigades. The dead are all buried together in hasty mass graves, bones touching. "
