the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

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.

part memory part distance remainingmine in the ways that I learn to miss you

Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.

I know it when I see itJacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), concurring op.

I am a negative person by nature, and I typically shy away from anything that requires me to be having visible fun.

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

My father was a Social Gospel, far-left liberal, and to some degree a mystic. But we did not have Bible readings; we had prayers.

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

Every person has seeds of greatness within, even though they may currently be dormant.

Sometimes people say,' One day you are going to look back at this and laugh.' My question is:' Why wait?

Damn right I like the life I live, Cause I went from negative to positive.