• Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them.

    Rosario Ferre: Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them.
    Rosario Ferré (1996). “Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories”, Plume Books