Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

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

I love the kookiness of our speech. Speech is like wonderful magic and poetry in itself. I've always had to crib a lot from what I've heard.

We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for anyone else.

People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. I guess the best way of saying it is that no one could have survived what we survived - whether it was first extermination and slavery, then abandonment and erasure, then the series of gunboat two-bit dictatorships, followed by the final apotheosis of dictatorships, the Trujillato. You couldn't survive it without the resistance of this kind of woman.

Character is the plot in many ways

Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.