My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.

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.

Agnes walked in with a tray of gorgeous raspberry tortes, fruit sorbet, and pistachio ice.

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

Only the unique is universal.

Who lives content with little possesses everything.

I’d have thought 50,000 years of existing on the continent would have qualified as settled.

How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it.

Since I have always been a strong believer in God, I knew that He was with me, and only He could get me through that next step

Leaders, whatever the size of their organizations, are those willing to put the interests of other people before their own.