You were given that pain and that vision because you have something to do with it.

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 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.

It's easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we're doing something.

This morning I woke up, how blessed I am Eyes to see, a voice to speak Words to read and love to feel? If this isn't something to be thankful for, I'm not sure what is.

Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

Whatever you do is your deed.

Let me know if you're going to do something stupid, kid, 'cause I'll ditch you like that.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

To fear retirement is to fear life.

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.

A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be ashamed of you in public.