When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism ….

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….

The writers who have been serious about recreating American literature have always been far and few between. What we do have at the end of the 20th c….

Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while..

Many European countries are fascinated with minorities from the United States. They still see this country as a world power and they covet that power….

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

According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they f….

A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yoursel….

Our goal should be to achieve joy.

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….

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American..

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….

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….

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….

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….

Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you..

People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact..

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. Th….

Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates..

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman..

I had serious reservations about putting my son in the public schools in my area. I have a tremendous amount of fear for the future of my boy. He's n….