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I feel I’ll take on the responsibility of showing the world a whole different kind of Latin woman.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn’t stand to be ignored.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don’t yet have states. They’re inside someone else’s state and they want a state of their own.

I don’t know if I like being the sentimental favorite.

I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.