How can art make a difference in the world?

I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.

I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very powerful.

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday. One day. Not today.

Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.

My mom took my sister and me to see Elvis [Presley] in concert when was, maybe 5 or 6, and I liked everything about it.

We learned that very few people care how you accomplish something. Instead, these people care more about whether you create value for your end user.

The fact that he relies on facts - says things that are not factual - are going to undermine his campaign.

People are more what they hide than what they show.

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.

The direction in which we are moving is more important than where we are at the moment. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.

If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has never changed'

Better to be a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks.