"Acting has taught me resilience, preparation, and teamwork. It’s not just about individual effort—it’s about working with directors, fellow actors, and the entire crew."

"I’ve learned to manage my emotions and stay focused on delivering my best performance."

"By the time filming wrapped, I had fallen in love with acting. It felt natural like I had uncovered a new part of myself. That role marked the beginning of my journey, and from then on, I knew acting was something I wanted to pursue."

"I didn’t plan to act; it just happened."

"I am trying to shake this habit of underestimating my impact."

"I have always thought of writing as healing myself that is and occasionally speak for others."

"Writing is not for the faint-hearted; one should be able to stand by their writing."

"There were things that I could not deem worthy of my time, but then with the situation there, there were some things I had to go through."

"High school life taught me to choose my friends carefully and how to deal with my emotions as a teenager."

"I learned to be patient and tried to excel at things even when I did not want to."

"It is hard to do, but the best things in the world do not come easily."

"It is a journey that one never ends. I just have to keep on learning and growing in literature."

"I learned to be patient and collaborate with others."

"The only thoughts we have control over are our own."

"It takes a lot of conviction to release your thoughts and ideas to the world."

"I am more open to socialising with people, whereas I used to be a soft-spoken and quiet person."

"The crucial thing I learned is that writing is a process and one may have to do some rewriting and countless edits to get it to the level they want."

"I was young and telling my story, baring myself."

"There are fewer chances of knowing if someone else truly accepts you."

"I had always loved writing and reading and so I decided to make a change."

"I just realised that I could make a difference through something else instead of loathing myself."

"Self-acceptance is a bittersweet remedy for many mental health issues that people face nowadays."

"Love yourself and if there is something you do not like about yourself, change it."

"If you cannot accept yourself, you live in a fog forever, trying to figure out who loves you or does not."

"Tell your story. I can see you are fighting yourself over it."

"We all know what a coconut is, don’t we? It’s a person who is “black on the outside” but “white on the inside."

"As a black woman, black people, you’re not supposed to crumble."

"There's way hipper, trendier shit happening in spaces unsafe for lily-white skinned people's privilege."

"All my work as a writer has to do specifically with the black condition, the black woman’s condition and theorising about and speaking to black liberation; black revolution."

"The past, present, and future, all wrapped into one."

"I am living proof you can start bad and end good through a relationship with Jesus Christ."

"Sometimes when you're in a dark place, you think you've been buried. But you've actually been planted. Be patient... Your time to grow is coming!"

"God deliberately chooses imperfect vessels — those who have been wounded, those with physical or emotional limitations. Then he prepares them to serve and sends them out with their weakness still in evidence, so that his strength can be made perfect in that weakness."

"“Faith is believing God is who He says He is, and that He will do what He said He would do.”"

"more you focus on what you are called to do, the less you become distracted by what someone else is or isn’t doing. It’s hard to run your race and your course while focusing on someone else’s race and course."

"You know, I personally have to fight to protect my thoughts so my thinking does not spiral out of control. When my mind is full of joy and peace, I can run fast every, I can run harder, I can run further they are. So choose to think about what you're thinking about every single day. Another important aspect of running is that runners stretch and strengthen. So in order to run at optimal capacity, runners need to stretch before and after each run. I'm speaking to myself right now. So if they do not, their bodies will become rigid and inflexible. Exhibit a, that would be me. I have to admit I do need to take my own advice in this area because as we grow older we lose our flexibility and we're prone to more and more injuries. I often think I don't have time to stretch and then I wonder why I feel very very stiff the next day. Stretching actually reduces muscle tension, it promotes circulation, and it reduces the risk of injury. Stretching is a very very important practice."

"To step into tomorrow’s possibilities you must let go of yesterday’s realities. Be careful of your choices between what was, is and will be. It is very hard to fully step into your destiny while you are still holding on to your history."

"When there is a fight between your heart and your head, experience has taught me that the best thing you can do is pick up your Bible and remind yourself of what God says."

"Even if people have disappointed you or circumstances have not turned out as you had hoped or prayed, know that God is with you, cares for you, and loves you. He is working all these things together for your good right at this very moment."

"Don't you remember that it is not easy to guard against the sin to which love drags?"

"In her extensive work, an Iliad of the North, Sigrid Undset has resurrected in a new and visionary light the ideals which once guided our forefathers who built that community from which our Germanic culture derived. To an age in which it may be easier to acknowledge that the right to the greatest happiness is the duty of renunciation – to this age Sigrid Undset has shown the ideals of our forefathers: duty and faithfulness."

"The flash fiction genre allows me to concentrate the maximum possible meaning in the minimum possible signifier, and I love this. It has strong links with poetry and it is narrative at the same time. It has everything in such a short length! It is a great pleasure for me to transform an idea —a stone, say— into a brilliant gem in a single day. And if everything fails, if the stone cannot be made into a jewel, I can throw it away in a few hours, instead of suffering for years as happens with writing a novel. Today’s poetry is too mysterious for me. It is too hermetic. At times my flash fictions can seem difficult to read, but they always provide the necessary keys to unlock their respective meanings."

"Savage capitalism and globalization finished in the 1990s what dictatorship started in the 1970s. State policy favored big business that sought to seize the local markets."

"Shua is one of the world’s most accomplished and acclaimed flash fiction writers. We see this first in her publication of La sueñera in 1984 and then non-stop with collections such as Casa de Geishas (1992) and Fenómenos de circo (2011; published in English as Without a Net, Hanging Loose Press, 2012). Several such collections have been published in Madrid in one volume, Cazadores de Letras (2009). In her flash fictions we see a creative talent who seeks constantly challenges of form and content. Shua is the product of her time and place; in her flash fictions we hear idioms specific to a Buenos Aires argentinidad (Argentine-ness), for instance. Yet, she’s restless, carefully crafting flash fictional worlds that transcend time and place. She never accepts the inertia formulaic solutions and representations. In her flash fictions we travel from the mundane to the metaphysical, from the ugly to the sublime. We are made privy to the power play within family units and between lovers. In her collection Microfictions, for instance, we encounter inanimate objects like blow dryers with interior states—a refrigerator that softly purrs at night “in heat for its mate” and a statue that “smiles impassively, somewhat amazed as she admires the perfection of the sculptor, her creation”. She wraps language around her finger (every word counts) to offer her readers a penetrating look into what makes us tick—and what makes reality glisten. Whether her characters are old, young, women, men, animals, objects and the like, she invests them with complex thinking, desiring, and dreaming subjectivities. Shua’s incisive quick visions—gestalts—make constantly new our experience of the world. It is from the Americas and with Shua’s flash fictions at the vanguard that we see the radical transformation of our planetary republic of letters."

"A good translation must bring to the reader not only the meaning of the text, but also to its music —its rhythms."

"Variety is my device. Each of my texts must startle the reader one way or another. I think that is one of the tasks literature must accomplish: to never let the reader feel really confortable."

"Ethics and aesthetics are just the same in art; or at least they are integrated in a complex way."

"I love to play with words and meanings and to make somersaults with them. In the encounter with my fictions, I would like my readers to experience more than just reflection. I would hope they trigger in the readers their own capacity to imagine and play with all the possibilities of language."