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I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.


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Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.



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The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.



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Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.



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She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.



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If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves



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We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.



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Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.



I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.

I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.



[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.

[Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.



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The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.





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I can see the cracks in society, in people, in this world and I'd rather die before slipping into one of them.




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Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.



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I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.



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I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.




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