| Many books have been written about
Mexico under the guise of 'guidebooks' that, in reality, are
nothing more than compilations of hotels, restaurants and nightclubs,
along with a few tips about where to buy authentic handicrafts
that almost look as if they came from Mexico and not Taiwan
... These books don't guide you to Mexico -- they guide you
away from it.
- Carl Franz, People's
Guide to Mexico
Un area de conflictos es un area de oportunidades para cambiar.
(An area of conflict is an opportunity for change).
- Hugo Antonio Santiago, Oaxaca
La armonía reside en proteger la vida de la tierra.
(Harmony lies in the protection of life on earth).
- Inscription on the Otafuku statue, Viveros
Park
¡Como no te voy a querer!
- UNAM
Am I not here, who is your Mother? Are you not under my protection?
- Virgin
de Guadalupe
In México
nothing ever happens until it happens.
- Porfirio
Díaz
Thank God they're only after the gold and silver. They don't
know about the jade.
- Moctezuma
Observe all signs. (Obedezca las señales)
- Roadside signage
Nuestra literatura no sólo recrea, sino que transmite
una enseñanza que busca frenar los males colectivos y
las conductas negativas. Tiene todo un fondo de enseñanza.
Con la expansión del colonialismo y más tarde
con la política de incorporación del siglo XX,
que promovió la escuela rural mexicana, la literatura
indígena no ha hecho más que asumir un papel de
resistencia cultural.
- Mario
Molino
Para mí sólo recorrer los caminos que tienen
corazón, cualquier camino que tenga corazón. (I
only trek the paths that have heart, whatever path that has
heart.)
- Carlos Castaneda, The
Teachings of Don Juan
For those seeking a taste of the real Mexico, go to Oaxaca
City.
- Rick Bayless
When you hang out with Mexicans and you speak Spanish, you
are in a different México.
- Conversation
Oh, Mexico. I never really been but I'd sure like to
go.
- James Taylor
There is no 'Mexican time.' There are people who are punctual
and those who are not.
- Conversation
How long is one hour photo developing in Mexico?
- Conversation
Manana in Oaxaca has the same meaning it does in the
rest of Mexico but without the same sense of urgency.
- Popular saying
The key lies in the past, a deep subconcious past that stays
alive in Mexicans today. It is a continuous past, but not a
consistent past. In it, Mexicans must conciliate being conquered
and conqueror, retaining many of the racial characteristics
and personality traits of the Indians and even glorifying their
pre-Hispanic heritage, while speaking Spanish, practicing Catholocism
and thinking of Spain as the mother country.
- Alan Riding, Distant
Neighbors
Cada vez que muere un ave, cade vez que arde un bosque,
y sobre todo, cada vez que una especie animal o vegetal desaparece,
las posibilidades de superviencia se reducen para la humanidad.
- Miguel Alvarez del Toro, Voces por la Naturaleza
If life is difficult, why not celebrate?
- Conversation, 2004
The guides who have been trained couldn't find work in tourism
so they left. One is working in the United States. Another guide
works at the water plant.
- Tourism official, Mexico
Aqui es Oaxaca,
tierra del legitamo mezcal (This is Oaxaca,
land of legitimate mezcal)
- Photo
What has value is what is repeated.
- Conversation, Oaxaca 2007
The old gods and the new gods are virtually indistinguishable.
- Conversation, Oaxaca 2007
Oaxacans are so complicated, they tie their cheese into a knot.
(Los Oaxaqueños son tan complicados que hasta el quesillo
enrollan. Or Los Oaxaqueños son tan complicados que aun
el queso lo hacen bola)
- Conversation, 2001
Monterrey
is where civilization ends and carne asada begins.
- Popular expression (in Central Mexico)
Cancún
can be an acquired taste.
- Nick Rider, Yucatan
and Mayan Mexico
Para el ultimo etapa necesitamos el apoyo del público.
- Pedro
Martínez, Noticias 2 de Noviembre 1986
Badges? We
don't need no stinkin' badges!
- Traven, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
If you're not confused by what's going on in Mexico today,
then you probably are misinformed.
- Sergio Sarmiento
¿Quieren que les cuente un cuento? (Would you like
me to tell you a story?)
- Brozo, Mexico newscaster/clown, aka Victor Trujillo
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