Chavela Vargas quotes
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“When you like something, you should do it all night long.”
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“I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk.”
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“What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague.”
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“I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.”
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“Frida Kahlo taught me a lot without ever bragging about anything.”
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“I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.”
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“I had to fight to be me and get respect, and to carry that stigma, for me, is pride. Carrying the tag of lesbian. I'm not bragging, I'm not preaching, but I don't deny it . I had to face society, the Church, which says damn gay people ... it's absurd. How do you judge someone who has been born that way. I did not study to be a lesbian. Neither was it taught to me. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world. I've never slept with a man. Never. I'm pure, I don't have to be ashamed ... My Gods made me so.”
-- Chavela Vargas
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Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House
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Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
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“It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.”
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Source : Aaron Copland, Richard Kostelanetz (2004). “Aaron Copland: A Reader : Selected Writings 1923-1972”, p.32, Psychology Press
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“The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.”
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“Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?”
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