It's what's available to the poor communities. They do buy healthy stuff, you know, but the lettuce is usually iceberg lettuce and to get any taste, they have to use all that ranch dressing.

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.

The hobgoblin of a little mind may be the genius of a great one.

Have you ever met someone for the first time, but in your heart you feel as if you’ve met them before?

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.

There are people with their iPads are taking pictures so much that they're not experiencing the moment. They go home and look at the pictures later.

I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

Any trade that is voluntarily made is mutually beneficial, by definition, and, indeed, is balanced, by definition.

Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.