You never understand how dear your privacy is until you lose it.

Women of color: if you're over 40 and you get fat, you will work. But if you're hot and over 40 and a woman of color, they don't know what to do with you.

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.

I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it.

I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.