Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things. — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable? — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive.… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you. — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew me as… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American. — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
As time has gone on and we're at the end of the 20th century and major publishing is a big business, yes, of course… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
“Women endure the labor of childbirth and men send themselves to war! But I gave birth to eight children and never once did I… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge.… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
