He looked at me slowly, with those eyes that seemed to have seen too many nights without stars.
Guillén examines his own last name, , recognizing it as a linguistic scar of colonization. He asks ancestral questions that he cannot answer: What was his original African name? el apellido nicolas guillen english translation
Era una mazorca verde, todavía no estallaba el grano duro. Sangraba un corazón de caña. Y mis abuelos, con una tablilla en la mano, con un hierro en la nuca, el pecho al aire, ya no tenían apellido. He looked at me slowly, with those eyes
Hey, you? Yes, me. What did you say? That they are robbing me of my last name! He looked at me slowly