I've faced worse things in my life than prison

We are all stronger, smarter, talented, beautiful, and more resilient than we were told.

Trans women are getting killed EVERYDAY & you think the struggle is over because you can put a ring on a finger?!

I would have rather been punished for asserting myself than become another victim of hatred.

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.

Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat weariness self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces but lurking in cornfields and factories and hovering over littered desks.

Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.

Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so?

Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the head.

Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human, or, in my case a Dominican human who grew up in New Jersey.

This moment is timeless, yet it is always new.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

You’re selfish and you’re cold, and I’m tired of getting frostbite when I touch you. (Acheron)