For me, writing a poem means enormous enjoyment that reaches its culmination when the poem appears in print. - Nancy Morejón

Very often people abroad see us talking about our free education as some sort of empty political slogan but in fact it is a reality and a priority.

My country will remain there where it is, washed by the Gulf Stream, the Caribbean Sea and by that desire to exist and remain and last with its windows open to the purest elements in human civilization without renouncing social justice. I would earnestly hope that there is a greater understanding between our cultures, in favor of civilization, against war, against terrorism, against every regressive atavism. Art is the magic that will take us by the hand along the most beautiful of paths.

The working class districts of Havana shaped my outlook