“I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies.”

I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina.

The salvation of man is through love and in love.

I don’t watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of ‘Grimm’, I get a little tense because I know someone’s going to jump out of somewhere.

I am never happier than when I am on set and getting to act. And I can’t wait for what is yet to come.

I love Spain. It’s my favorite country that I’ve been to and I’ve traveled quite a bit. I’ve been really fortunate as an adult to have been to a lot of interesting places like Egypt and China.

All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It’s so deeply ingrained in the culture.

The assumption that women are a subgroup, that men’s culture is the ‘real’ world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the ‘great’ or ‘liberalizing’ periods of history have been the same for women as for men.

To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.

Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation.

In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.

Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.

“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.

Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.