"I was born with a particular sensitivity to words. Some people are very good with math and sports… I wasn’t but I cou…"

"People believe that black people live the same way everywhere and that is not true. White people don’t live the same …"

"I do not see this novel as solely dealing with LGBT issues. I see Sirena as a metaphoric representation of the whole …"

"literature and arts are defined in our cultures as an activity that produces both, or this product, that is for leisu…"

"that's what artists are. We are the voices, and the memory, and the explorers of an aesthetic, and a sensibility, and…"

"what is sold as mainstream literature, I don't like it very much—very simplified, industrialized, Dan Brown stuff. I …"

"My intention is to write things that can convey a vision of the memory lost, of a way of living in the world."

"I think that art and especially literature is really good at teaching people how to be compassionate and how to put y…"

"Our stand as an island/nation/U.S. "territory"/colony is asking for a revision. Personally, I believe that we live in…"

"Afro-descendants in Puerto Rico fall between the gaps of two converging definitions of Blackness and Latinx-ness and …"