...the self can be as desperately stranded in the transcendence of theory as in the immanence of consumption.

I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.

Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.

We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.

I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.

I put my foot in my mouth sometimes. I'll be the first to admit it.

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

I am a stranger in all countries.

When a horse wants to display himself...he lifts his neck up high and flexes his poll haughtily, and picks his legs up freely, and keeps his tail up.

If I didn't wake up, I'd still be sleeping.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition.

For me, beauty is always retreating from one’s grasp: the only thing I consider important is what existed once, or ought to have existed.

When people concentrate on the idea of beauty, they are, without realizing it, confronted with the darkest thoughts that exist in this world. That, I suppose, is how human beings are made.

I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line...

I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.

Get on in life because life will get on without you if you don't keep up.

Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?

I have no message.

I have decided to come back for Les Bleus.

We'll do it, we'll do it.

To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.