"I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as an ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic - in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself." - Anais Nin
"I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S." - Eduardo Galeano
"I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles." - Edwidge Danticat