When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

We have to start calling sexual harassment out because only then can we start to make progress on it.

It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.

Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.

I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'

My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.

My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.

My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.

I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.

As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.

There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

A scolded mouse knows no grievance.

Your belief in yourself, is the Secret to Achieving anything you want.

If you create incredible value and information for others that can change their lives - and you always stay focused on that service - the financial success will follow.

Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.