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

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.

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.

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.

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.

Here I am, a wild beast cut off from his companions.

The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

You either create or allow everything that happens to you.

Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.

The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.

Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers.

Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.