Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.
When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.
Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.
Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.
The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth
I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.
A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere.
I won't ask you if you ever received flowers from a man before. But it was my first, gifting flowers to a woman.
Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York.
They sat it "Rains Blood" at scenes of battle. . . you truly. . . make blood rain
For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.