There are many writers who have influenced me and who I enjoy reading, but Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks are at the top of the list.

I teach young people how the arts can be used to stand up against injustice.

In my writing I hope to have a balance between the good and bad, the hard and soft.

Picture books are more difficult for me because it is telling a huge story in the least amount of words.

I have always known that I wanted to work with youth through the arts and I believe the arts can help young people cope with hardship.

For me, the lives of children and teens are interesting - they are always changing. There's just so much to sort through. All of this makes for good plots and complex characters.

Positive mind, positive life.

I promise permanence. I promise persistence. I promise that falling in love was just the beginning for us.

Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey.

It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

A journey does not need reasons. Before long, it proves to be reason enough in itself. One thinks that one is going to make a journey, yet soon it is the journey that makes or unmakes you.

As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.

When He send, His messengers will go, His prophets will prophesy, though all the world should forbid them.