Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.

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.

It is good to know the truth but it is better to speak of palm trees.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.

All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.

Communism is the end of the economy as a separate and privileged field on which everything else depends while despising and fearing it.

The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.

I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.

Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.

The organization and the environment are in concert.

I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.