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"I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity."
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"God doesn't help anyone, humans do."
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"Humans should be grateful if they haven't been in contact withaliens, while humans are still making bloodshed with each other."
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"You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant... If I don't help them, who will?"
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"Lift up your eyes and see the good in the world, for we are people with an amazing capacity to do great good. And if only the minority choose to exercise this capacity to the smallest degree, oh how wondrous and sweet the deeds performed at but a few hands!"
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"When phobia starts to build up in the psyche of thinking humanity against a part of its own kind, there is nothing more primordial and gruesome than that, especially when we are talking about a species that is supposedly the most intelligent one on Earth. Phobias recorded in DSM do not make a person lesser human, but Islamophobia does indeed define whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman."
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"Human destiny depends on depth of education."
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"Human life is a great story written by the mysterious, mystical and magical human mind."
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"There is nothing wrong with a human being. There is something wrong with his ideas."
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"I don't want to be rich and famous but I want to die knowing I stood infront of a broken man and gave him one reason to smile again."
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"I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants."
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"Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within."
Peace
"Mexico is only a memory of childhood safety."
Family
"I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog."
Family
"But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world."
Battle
"Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel."
Life
"And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out."
Life
"I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom."
Power
"I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private."
Balance
"I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not."
Identity
"My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men."
Life
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