There's all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar - because it is like an addiction.

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.

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.

We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.

The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.

I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.

So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

It takes a smart guy to play dumb.

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.

He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.