The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
With you I'm useless with words. As if somehow I had to learn to speak all over again, as if the words… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Spanish is a poetic language, in particular the Spanish of Mexico which has a wonderful animistic attitude you might not see in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. It's like being blind. You aren't less of a person,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
For example, there's no word emocionó in English, so I have to say, "You, you really emotioned me," It's more precise, even… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When you become a driver, they don't tell you that you have to switch languages. The drivers have their own language and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I can get by and chatter and talk and tell funny stories, make people laugh, but I don't have as many words,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I realize that it's like spices in the kitchen. I need that turmeric. I'm sorry, but cinnamon isn't going to substitute .… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
A second person that's come to my life very recently, and I'm thankful for it, is Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When you speak words that are relevant to people, they automatically shut up and you know you are in the presence of… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have a responsibility… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
I never know what something is going to be until it emerges from the womb and you see the crown of its head and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
Believe it or not, Mexican cooking, for those of you who have not gone farther south than Taco Bell, uses a lot of vegetables.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year's Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods that are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I said of… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
If we got an educational program going, we could tell people, "Instead of butter, use avocado." That's something we eat, it has the good… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
I always have to have sweet and salty. I know some of you are going to say, "Oh, I tried dates. I hate them."… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share
