SPEECHES
It is crucial to acknowledge the dysfunction in our world to enable a better version of ourselves
At one point, he lived with two women, as husband and wives. The women shared the same first name. They lived in the same house. They had babies on the same day. He was in his twenties when I remember briefly staying in his house on a ranch near Brenham when we came...
PHOTOS ARE REMINDERS THAT CHANGE IS INEVITABLE AND OUR CAPACITY TO ADAPT IS INTEGRAL TO OUR CONTINUED EXISTENCE
Facing the early afternoon glare, our eyes are partly closed while my son, my wife and I are at a Metropolitan Transit Authority (METRO) rail station. It is the scene depicted in a photograph I found from 2004. A closer look shows that the squint and the prescription...
THE CHALLENGE of repeating a successful speaking performance
How can I match what I did previously? This is a question public speakers face regularly. Repeating a successful performance presents a challenge because factors that impact communication change from moment-to-moment and individuals must be ready to adapt to fluid circumstances.
A LIFE-LONG STRUGGLE: Communicating well in English is a never-ending endeavor for an immigrant
I aspire to communicate well in English. As an immigrant who arrived in the United States at the age of nine, a limited vocabulary and the lack of knowledge of how to use a period or a comma made learning to communicate an arduous process. Initially, the task was...
Exhorting Students to be Attentive
Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. I am very appreciative for the invitation. I am honored to be here but a bit apprehensive about speaking. You see every time I am asked to speak to teenagers I think about my years as a teen. And I think about the...
Said and Noted
"The odds are great
But my spirit is strong,
My faith unbreakable...
I SHALL ENDURE!
I WILL ENDURE!"
"-Rodolfo Gonzales, (excerpt from) I am Joaquin
"[I am a] Daughter of two countries [and a] citizen of none." -Anita Brenner
"Si le das mas poder al poder mas duro te van a venir a joder." -Molotov
"Do not waste your time explaining...what a good person you are. If your heart is filled with kindness that will be shown daily in your actions." -Jessica Lorena Rangel
"I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight." -Pancho Villa
"There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers." -Richard Rodriguez
"I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men." -Emiliano Zapata
"[I'm] Watching sheep fall for words of corrupt wolves...[it's] like y'all ain't learn shit." -Karen Y. Le
