Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.

Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element.

Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.

I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.

I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads

I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world's soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el espiritu del mundo. I change myself, I change the world.

I change myself, I change the world.

To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras be a crossroads.

You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.

I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly

I think that's the hardest part about mistakes: Sometimes the consequences aren't physical. Sometimes they simply chip away at the essence of who you are.

The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes.

I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted

One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that.

When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.

If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

We deserve leaders who stand for principal, who unite us all behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect from everybody.

The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.