I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief.

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.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

... cynicism is the only tool that can scrape away the tint off rose-coloured glasses.

How is it possible that anyone can believe in a kind of God of Evil named Satan or Devil? Surely, evil lies within oneself.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

The more you say, the less they remember.

I can count on one hand how many people I trust.

If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times

We would love to see walking groups more widely recommended by physicians, health trainers and nurses.

Color cannot stand alone.