You don't have to be the specialist on everything. You can try to inform yourself.

My idea of a meal, if I was hungry, was to open a bag of potato chips.

I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good.

Marshall Rosenberg talks about how we can create peace in the communities we work with. He's been traveling to warring nations to create peace within those countries.

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

Think about the books that you were reading at a certain crisis in your life, what you were reading, and that's because you needed them to nourish your alma.

I think that we need to measure how we give dollars to libraries by need. And the communities that are poor, in my opinion, should get more because you have to do more outreach.