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.

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.

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

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 change myself, I change the world.

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

History is not nostalgic art, but history is ibrah, lessons, that we can pull to the present, to prepare for a better future, ” -105

We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

I run five miles three times a week I log everything. I look up routes when I travel.

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

Something in me, in my bruised heart, wakes up, and even though I'm terrified, I don't push the feeling away.

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't.

Consuming is an endless treadmill.

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