I'm Puerto Rican! You can never take my rice, pork, and beans away. Plus, I love to cook. I'm one of those people who stay in the kitchen standing while everything is cooking, checking on everything.

I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful.

When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and why not have someone to represent that rainbow?

Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.

I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.

I would like to pick Rihanna's brain. I love her style and what she does.

My bikini, a pair of black high heels and a pair of comfortable jeans.

I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs... I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker.

I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.

I need someone who always wants more out of life. Like me - I'm just that way.

I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.

I saw a stationery store move.

We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.

We don't know the power that's within our own bodies

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country.

The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.