I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me.

For me I was always a smart nerdy kid. I wasn't the smartest and I wasn't the nerdiest, but I was a smart nerdy kid my whole childhood, and I definitely wanted to be somehow involved with reading the rest of my life, and I came from a community, I lived in a community, I was part of a community where reading was considered completely alien.

She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.

[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.

This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.

She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.

Because I can't seem to escape it. It's a way for me to address and counter my questions about what it means to be human, or, in my case a Dominican human who grew up in New Jersey.