Sandra Cisneros

We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are:…

— Sandra Cisneros

I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have…

— Sandra Cisneros

I never know what something is going to be until it emerges from the womb and you see the crown of its…

— Sandra Cisneros

Believe it or not, Mexican cooking, for those of you who have not gone farther south than Taco Bell, uses a lot…

— Sandra Cisneros

I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too.

— Sandra Cisneros

Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things.

— Sandra Cisneros

To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year's Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods…

— Sandra Cisneros

You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep…

— Sandra Cisneros

[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these…

— Sandra Cisneros

I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I…

— Sandra Cisneros

We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt."…

— Sandra Cisneros

When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with…

— Sandra Cisneros

I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who…

— Sandra Cisneros

If we got an educational program going, we could tell people, "Instead of butter, use avocado." That's something we eat, it has…

— Sandra Cisneros

I always have to have sweet and salty. I know some of you are going to say, "Oh, I tried dates. I…

— Sandra Cisneros

If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city…

— Sandra Cisneros

You can never have too much sky.

— Sandra Cisneros

One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy…

— Sandra Cisneros

Every single house has had death visit.

— Sandra Cisneros

[Dennis Mathis] was very sensitive about keeping the unique way that I spoke English - it had a lot of Mexicanisms or…

— Sandra Cisneros

The ego's blocking the light from coming.

— Sandra Cisneros

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

Imagine Americans who go to Paris. Why would you want to go where someone's going to disparage you? Why would you go…

— Sandra Cisneros

I can't hang around with lots of people these days because I am hypersensitive. So when I am around a lot of…

— Sandra Cisneros

If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

— Sandra Cisneros