I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.

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.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

The stars up close to the moon were pale they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon

Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.

People are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them.

Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony.

You learn from doing and you learn from experiencing what it feels like to be present and lost in the moment with another artist.

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

I never ever felt that I was unfairly treated.