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.

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.

Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads

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.

I change myself, I change the world.

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

To confess greatness and financial prosperity will be a joke if you still waste time and spend time on non-productive events.

I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.

Know this. If you're here to hurt my ship, or my crew, I will make sure you truly do know sufferi

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

What we're already doing is communism. The first step we have to make is to realize that we're already closer to it than we think.

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

Expressing passion and gratitude will guide your life. Say it again and again. Say it until you believe it. Say it until you live it.

If you don't know what else to do, drink beer.

The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority