Before night falls

Jalyn 2022-03-02 08:01:06

I have never

understood the relationship between poverty and freedom. Reinaldo Arenas said in Before Night Falls that his childhood was so beautiful because there was absolute poverty and there was absolute freedom.

People said to seek liberation, and liberation became containment An excuse for freedom. Those different ways of life between you and me are seen as a sign of opposition to revolution, despised, imprisoned, covered up, betrayed, eliminated.
Or, exiled--the last one is the only way to compete , like a dream--although from sleep still thinking of your own country.

Write, there is always a free land to breathe;
revel, and get drunk in our own club.
Before night falls.

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Before Night Falls quotes

  • Reinaldo's Mother: Reinaldo, would you be sad if I died?

  • Reinaldo Arenas: [narrating] Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as beauty.