I think men spend so much time passing for being men.

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.

I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me.

People respond to kindness. They trust a smile more than a promise that you will leave them choking on their own blood.

The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh.

God has the potential of touching people's hearts and changing them.

Truths are a result of knowing yourself.

Is being an idiot like being high all the time?

The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny.

To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.