You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

My art feels like it's real disobedient. I can fill notebooks with observations and maybe they find their way into the work unconsciously, which is great. I've never been able to directly plug, like to take a little snip that I've picked up on the street and transfer it into a story. I don't know what's wrong, but it never works that way.

What a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are).

People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong.

If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves

As an artist you're on a journey of discovery and sometimes that journey takes a long time, doesn't subscribe to [a] train schedule, to the punch-clock. And I need to read a lot to make my pages happen.