To All The Women And The Men

Between The Sun And Poverty There Was Us For A Little While.

I Was Just, Like, Not At All The Office Type; I Was The Artist Type.

People Like To Think Of Themselves As Purists, But There Is No Such Thing As Purity, When There Exists So Much Contact.

I Think The Possibilities Are Endless In Terms Of What The Genre Would Be Like. However, In Terms Of Looking For Sources Of Money, I Think We Have To Be Very Careful Not To Fall Into Hollywood's Commodification Of Chicano Culture. We Could Look At The Example Of Piri Thomas, A Successful Puerto Rican Writer Now Living In The Bay Area, Who Has Received Repeated Offers From Hollywood...and He Said He's Not Going To Write About His People Doing Drugs And Going To Jail.

There Are Things Coming From Me That I Felt I Wanted To Talk About. My Search For My Own Blend Of Spirituality, My Acknowledgement Of My Sexuality, My Being The Single Mother Of A Young Man.