A House on Mango Street

Há frases que nos acompanham sempre, são nossas bengalas em tempos de altos e baixos. Descobri Sandra Cisneros (1954, Chicago), de origem mexicana, e estas frases em Nova York e, desde então, têm feito parte de meus álbuns, de cadernos, de folhinhas perdidas...

"Not a flat. Not an apartment in back. Not a man´s house. Not a daddy´s. A house all my own. With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias. My books and my stories. My two shoes waiting beside the bed. Nobody to shake a stick at. Nobody´s garbage to pick after. Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem" (Sandra Cisneros, in "A House on Mango Street")