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.

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

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.

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.

Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.

Sometime your heart is the only thing worth listening to.

The memory of sacred moment is unforgettable.

Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

I did a Clean & Clear commercial. I did a series of them. I used to be the Clean & Clear girl!

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.