The most powerful speaking you can do is the speaking that comes from your heart and your love.

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.

Sometimes, lies were the same things as wishes. Sometimes, wishes were things to hate.

Gift like genius I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

When you see beauty all around you, beauty will seek and find you, even in the most unexpected places.

There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

What do Judy Garland and Lady Gaga have in common?

You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday.

It only takes a second to call a girl fat and She'll take a lifetime trying to starve herself.. think before you act.

When we have an item that has value to the school and the athletic department, we cannot throw it away just to be fair.

The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders.