I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
My first book was on the grittier side of life. A week before being published, I realized all of my main characters come from single households. That was something that, when I lived in South Bronx, that's what it was like.
Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.
I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.
'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?
I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.
I grew up in the Bronx.
