There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, m….

I feel that it's very important for young people to have a sense of history and do research and don't re-invent the wheel and don't think that you're….

The man you love cooking for you is good for you too..

The language in New Mexico is very different. At first when you hear the speech here, you don't really know what to do with it, but then I just went ….

When I hear that Jennifer Lopez is such a role model for Latinas, on the one hand I respect her for her business sense and I respect her for her ambi….

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?.

Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when the Europeans arrive….

Something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil..

Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs..

my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and….

What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, w….

When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew me as an individual with that tongue-in-ch….

I think the possibilities are endless in terms of what the genre would be like. However, in terms of looking for sources of money, I think we have to….

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorientin….

Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood….

I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words..

Our goal should be to achieve joy.

It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color….

There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re al….

Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies..

As time has gone on and we're at the end of the 20th century and major publishing is a big business, yes, of course we're going to get a lot of plain….