You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday. One day. Not today.

I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.

I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very powerful.

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

You can never have too much sky.

Doors are for people with no imagination.

Our confidence is not in what we have, but He who freely gave us what we have. If God's will is in your little stones, they will surely bring down giant Goliaths... but you have to make the throw!

I'd rather be eaten by a dragon.

The gods, " he said. "Imprisoned in a thought. And perhaps they were never more than a dream.

You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?

I believe in women. I desire . . . to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as well as educational work.

A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.

The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

I just need some time to get over all those years of having liked him