Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?

You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.

If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.

What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are.