"I learned how to be self-critical, because they were always criticizing me. So I learned very early on to edit myself. But I also knew, if you could be fast and you could be funny, people would listen; it’s a way of getting people to listen." (Cisneros) Finding a way to be listened is definitely key. It makes me think that everyone has a specific way of being charming, and we just have to seek that for others to listen.
"You don’t have to tell anyone, but I want you to see it and to walk towards that dream every day. And then you can say it aloud, when you are in a safe place." (Cisneros) I think its very important to inspire children, so then they grow up to be inspiring adults. This is beautiful, because she gives her students space to be big, and bold just for them.
"And I’m trying to cross many borders now in my life, both physical and spiritual, and I’m trying as best I can, because my time is running out. I don’t feel that I’ve done my best work." (Cisneros) I think that having goals, and necessities that can't necessarily be completed is the core of creating, and exploding as an artist. It's unfair, because we're not allowed to stop and be selfish about our own work, so our next one just has to be better. This also applies to being progressive in our community
"It’s heartbreaking, because you have to break — the people you love the most, you have to break their heart, and you break your own heart because you’ve broken theirs" (Cisneros) Not just being a woman, but an immigrant. How can we not break hearts?
"And everybody has that potential. It’s not like someone’s greater than someone else. It’s just, we have to learn how to develop it." (Cisneros) This is a great tip for an actor. And human beings, about dropping our egos.
Listening to both artists makes me think that us as humans value so much of what we go through as children. It's as if whatever happens then, we want to live up to, or against. Deciding on what we stand up for. "And among those syncretic reactions was the religious universe in which I grew up, a universe ostensibly Catholic, but which was shot through, sort of subsumed in an Africanized, New World cosmology" (Diaz)
"Coming from a reality where our oppression was ineluctably linked to our bodies — that we had, for centuries, no rights to our bodies and that all of the traditional pleasures and all of the traditional freedoms of human agency were forbidden to those of us of African descent in the New World" (Diaz) How can we make people feel like they belong. In all cases. While having a simple conversation, an artistic story, or even during the process of creation.
"In the long afterlife of dictatorship, silence was invaluable, holding your counsel, not allowing people to know what you were really thinking. That permitted, for many, many families and many, many, community, permitted survival" (Diaz) This resonates with how my family feels, and the way it makes me observe, and give my opinion. I do find myself preferring to be silent.
"You don’t have to tell anyone, but I want you to see it and to walk towards that dream every day. And then you can say it aloud, when you are in a safe place." (Cisneros) I think its very important to inspire children, so then they grow up to be inspiring adults. This is beautiful, because she gives her students space to be big, and bold just for them.
"And I’m trying to cross many borders now in my life, both physical and spiritual, and I’m trying as best I can, because my time is running out. I don’t feel that I’ve done my best work." (Cisneros) I think that having goals, and necessities that can't necessarily be completed is the core of creating, and exploding as an artist. It's unfair, because we're not allowed to stop and be selfish about our own work, so our next one just has to be better. This also applies to being progressive in our community
"It’s heartbreaking, because you have to break — the people you love the most, you have to break their heart, and you break your own heart because you’ve broken theirs" (Cisneros) Not just being a woman, but an immigrant. How can we not break hearts?
"And everybody has that potential. It’s not like someone’s greater than someone else. It’s just, we have to learn how to develop it." (Cisneros) This is a great tip for an actor. And human beings, about dropping our egos.
Listening to both artists makes me think that us as humans value so much of what we go through as children. It's as if whatever happens then, we want to live up to, or against. Deciding on what we stand up for. "And among those syncretic reactions was the religious universe in which I grew up, a universe ostensibly Catholic, but which was shot through, sort of subsumed in an Africanized, New World cosmology" (Diaz)
"Coming from a reality where our oppression was ineluctably linked to our bodies — that we had, for centuries, no rights to our bodies and that all of the traditional pleasures and all of the traditional freedoms of human agency were forbidden to those of us of African descent in the New World" (Diaz) How can we make people feel like they belong. In all cases. While having a simple conversation, an artistic story, or even during the process of creation.
"In the long afterlife of dictatorship, silence was invaluable, holding your counsel, not allowing people to know what you were really thinking. That permitted, for many, many families and many, many, community, permitted survival" (Diaz) This resonates with how my family feels, and the way it makes me observe, and give my opinion. I do find myself preferring to be silent.
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