The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. ... I hadn't been to the mosque in like 10 years.

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.

I thought [when I was 16] my days were just going to be spent hanging out on a beach and my girlfriend was going to be Miss Teen USA and my best friend will be a dolphin.

I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.

I design therefore I become.

Change is such hard work.

The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

In fact, part of the Netflix series is drama.Beyond re-enactments. Why not invent something new?

My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.

Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".

We need to have a tax system that rewards work and not just financial transactions.

In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body.

Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.

I hate learning through experience. Just once I'd like to learn something because someone was nice enough to tell me in advance.