All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because our basis is spoken word.

I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to me.

Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.

Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to read and reread a text, you teach yourself something about craft.

There are a few of the authors that I think have made a great big impact on my life. The way I used to do things when I was younger was more about being outrageous, and there was a lot of ego involved in that.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

To me, the Virgen de Guadalupe is just a vessel for me to recognize my own God within myself.