My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.

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

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

We women shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.

Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.

I think no matter what you do you can't please everybody. You have to ask yourself, "Did I do what I set out to do?"

If you start thinking about who's going to read it [you're writing], or what grade will you get, or is it going to win that award, or are you going to get into this graduate program, you're blocking the light, and the light is that guidance and love we get when we open up our hearts and are guided by our higher selves, or God, or the Buddha Lupe [Buddha and the Virgin of Guadalupe fused together, as they are in the tattoo on Sandra's right arm], or whatever you believe in, or love.