Write about what makes you different.

I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.

I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.

I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.

The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life.

The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.

When I was at home, I wasn't shy. I was the clown at home, because I was loved. It was in the outside world that I was judged and I wasn't loved. That was very clear to me, that I wasn't loved. So I became very quiet. You know, those little girls you see in those pictures that look like they want to hunch, I was trying to disappear into my shoulder blades. The quietest person in the classroom, that was me. But that wasn't me at home.