A lot of my material was based on my family.

We have to start calling sexual harassment out because only then can we start to make progress on it.

It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.

Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.

I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'

My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.

My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.

My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.

When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.

As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.

Prayer is the power of being.

I always play with words, now i'm out of words i don't know how to describe you because you're my Father.. But surely i can say i love you

Come on, make it easy, say I never mattered

Every time you swim out to the rock, it gets a little closer.

The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.

The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.