The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resources to pay more, and these are the neighborhoods that go first.

I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous.

I didn't know I had a sense of limitation until I got into the greater world.

You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.

Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States. Many people have no idea what the relationship is between Puerto Rico and the United States. And certainly, I have been asked if we are citizens.

The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.