Like most Latinas, I'm not afraid to speak my mind.

The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.

To realize the American dream, the most important thing to understand is that it belongs to everybody. It's a human dream. If you understand this and work very hard, it is possible.

I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.

We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.