Obama is the closest thing to a Latino that we have. Barack. Everybody wants to see his birth certificate too.

I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

No particular race is the enemy. Ignorance is the enemy.

When I was 10 there wasnt trampolines and cartoon charaters, I never went to Chuck E Cheese! My mom said 'You wanna see a mouse pull the refrigerator Out!'

Whoever is my relative, I will not be nice to them.

We're Mexi-cans not Mexi-can'ts.

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

I'm a big fan of reality shows. I thought the first one, Dukes of Hazzard, captured white people perfectly.

Y'know, if those pews reclined, and the priests gave the Raiders scores I'd go to church every Sunday.

Life is an accumulation of what your Heart and mind has pondered most, a conclusion of all you wishes, dreams and desires.

Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

The fact that women are the primary care-givers is a problem for women and men

It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge

There's so much fear running our lives that we forget to be human when it really counts.

I think I was born with a suitcase.

In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.

It's funny when I read the tabloids and they're reporting on only a fraction of the life I'm leading.