Don't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.

I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, "Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with." And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink - it's gone.

Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.

Where I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in a neighborhood where very, very few people look like me.