I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

[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.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

The fact that we have people who have headed up oil corporations now assigned to places in cabinet.

Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.

There’s always time for babbling.

You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.

And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier.

I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their merit.

Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.

Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the world.