You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.

As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.

There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.

Ten years later, I will be able to say, "I saw future happen". And, this is the most rewarding part of what I do.

Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.

I've purged myself of worldly goods

Journalists need experts as badly as experts need journalists.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

Time And well being are two valuable belongings that we do not acknowledge and respect till they've been depleted.

Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.

In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the bookmobile and I'm going to come to them.