Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in

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.

In life, we are constantly growing.There are no true adults because our life experiences and sometimes unfortunate conditions show us that constant growth is part of the human story.

That's the thing about parents. They ask what you think, but they don't really care, or at least they don't care enough to let it affect the outcome.

I was guaranteed a hundred thousand dollars a year for five years, which was big money in the early 60's. You think, acquiring that should cool you out, but for me it wasn't true.

And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.

It's tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.

I do have a few personalities. When people started making a big deal out of it, I started making names for these people.

As the dawn comes up like thunder.

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the Arctic.