The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.

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.

As the sun knows

Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for.

But in proverbe I have herde say,That who that wel his werk beginneth,The rather a good end he winneth.

And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.

If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in.

Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.