If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground.

The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness..

I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder..

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me..

Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most p….

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achi….

Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse..

Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall in..

The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined..

Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about..

Women destroy me. I allow them to..

Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places..

Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that's opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet..

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love..

The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences..

I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our famil….

I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not even ….

Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?.

When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically..

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady..

There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not..