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.

[Donald] Trump is what happens in America every time it feels economically and politically threatened, and it encounters the limitations of its own white supremacists practices.

As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.

The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration.

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.

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.