Nicolas Guillen Professions : Poet Born : July 10, 1901 Died : July 16, 1990 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Nicolas Guillen We've got Chinese, white, black and mixed; but remember that our colors are cheap, for after many years of contracts and tricks nobody's purity runs very deep. Nicolas Guillen color running years My love, i would like even more; to be an ocean if you are the wave; to be a wave, if you are the ocean. Nicolas Guillen wave ocean sea Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors