Independence requires the willingness to be despised. - Fernando Vallejo

"Independence requires the willingness to be despised."

Fernando Vallejo Courage

Novelist Colombian Born 1942 (age 84)

More from Fernando Vallejo

"Life is a struggle against forgetting who we are."

"Colombia is a country where people kill each other for ideologies they don't understand."

"The Catholic Church is the greatest fraud in human history."

"Memory is the only immortality we have."

"Never let fear stop you from chasing your dreams."

"Courage is being afraid but doing it anyway."

"Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do."

"Sometimes you have to be the monster to stop the monsters."