Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.

[The biggest disappointment is] that he [Barack Obama] deported everybody and their grandmother.

I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. We fundamentally have been a culture that's been put together from the explosions of other cultures. But it's hard for us to see. We have blinded ourselves to the reality of what our country is.

Anger has a way of returning.

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.

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

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