Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.

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.

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.

All of the stories, all of the beauty, all of the songs and events of this life will vanish in the ocean of time.

What has more value in this world? That which is in shortage.

Glorious death is a transition into heavenly glories

And involuntarily I compared the childish sarcasm, the religious sarcasm of Voltaire with the irresistible irony of the German philosopher whose influence is henceforth ineffaceable.

It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make.

My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.

I didn't have things as a child, and I was determined to get them.

I think that's kind of indicative of a type of self-confidence that people develop when they recognize their own ability to create.

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.

It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.