In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.
Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.
if you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and that expresses our humanity.
What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.
For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.
People think [immigration] is only about the dollar, but it's so much more complex. This is a place where you can reinvent yourself. I don't know that you can do that anywhere else.