As an immigrant, there's a little part of you that always says, "Well, I'm not a hundred percent American." America is some other little boy or some ….

What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my….

Artists are the emotional historians of the world..

Everything is symbolic. If they'd picked some middle-aged white guy, well, that would have been a symbol, but it wouldn't have been shocking because ….

Entering into writing a poem is an emotional endeavor for me as well as a spiritual and creative one. Having to write those poems for the inauguratio….

I had been thinking about the question, "What do I love about America?" I kept coming back to this idea of community and home, which already obsessed….

I was at a stage in my life where I felt sort of comfortable being a dislocated person emotionally, feeling in some ways like a man without any parti….

Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life..

Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions..

We have always been searching for home. It's in our art... our religion... everything..

I like the labels because I think they tell my story in a very concise way: gay, Latino. I think the responsibility that comes with accepting labels ….