We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.

I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.

Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall in.

We travel with the same clan over and over again, from one life to the next, until some ultimate purpose is fulfilled and we no longer need to return.

To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.