To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.

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.

The great value of lofty goals is the bigness they instill in you as you step-up to achieve them.

The gift of writing

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.

If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

In the end, no matter how much you love your work, your work will not love you back.

If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that.

If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk.

There is definitely something that has to be said for me liking the action, Lara Croft type stuff. I really want to explore that side of me.

It's great to be able to employ people who other people wouldn't consider viable employees.

There is no movement in the golf swing so difficult that it cannot be made even more difficult by careful study and diligent practice.