Ana Castillo Inspirational Quotes (29)

What you perceive as liberal is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, with anyone, ever.

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?

I was just, like, not at all the office type I was the artist type.

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. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.

People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact.