Quotes by : Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini

Manuel adapted well to the Puerto Rican culture and its African and Taíno Indian influences, which permeated....

Antonio’s will was cursed. Not once, but twice.

Do you know who Samuel Langhorne Clemens is, Antonio?” Bessie asked.“No, chood I?” he said. “He....

Pardon me for this resolution … I know that this will be a disgrace that I bring to my people, but....

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments....

¡Zape! (Shoo!) Go away, go away, espíritu maligno (bad spirit)!” they sang. “Go back to where you....

The United States media is advocating for the country to go to battle with Spain and take over Cuba and....

He woke up to knocks on his door. “Just a minute!” he said out loud. “I’m coming!”He got up....

¡Hundieron el Maine!” said Manuel to his wife Etervina, as he read the newspaper on February 16, 1898.....

And then there was nature’s music. The small frog the locals called coquí was a treasured new sound,....