Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.

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.

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.

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.

Think of what you desire out of life.

What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.

No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?

Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others

The greatest gift children can give you is that, for the first time, you're not the center of your own universe.

If you've lost your faith in love and music, Oh the end won't be long...

Forget the known, don't be all the time immersed in your experiences.

TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.