There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

We have to start calling sexual harassment out because only then can we start to make progress on it.

It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.

Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.

I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'

My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.

My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.

My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.

When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.

As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.

to have great pain is to have certainty

I don't read books to finish them, I read to consume them.

That boy was going to make the world turn, and the stars would fall like rain.

Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.

Oh, escape is easy once you have the right plan.' 'Do we have the right plan?' 'Not yet.' 'Do we have any plan?' 'Not yet.

I tell you, I'm never going to stop. I'm not interested in rusting away.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.

Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?