The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

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.

'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.

You can never have too much sky.

If you want to break through to higher levels of performance, you must allow yourself to be restructured.

I believe we can choose Love and gratitude, or choose Other Than. Those are our options, and in the end, there’s only one option.

I felt ridiculously self-conscious, like the stick of celery at a luxurious buffet.

We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board.

You don't have to explain something you never said.

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

They only babble who practise not reflection

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.

I accidentally produced a Willow Smith track!