The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.

To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.

I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

I paint my own reality.

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.