You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture

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 want God to be first in my life, so I’m putting Him first in my life today.

I wonder, though…what would it be like? To be that close to a boy and have him see all of you, no holding back.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.

You're awake, you're awesome. Live like it.

If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.

I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys. Describing his cameo role on a TV series.

The tone is in your fingers, not in your amp or effects.

You have to eat your technique. Digest it. It's in your blood, but you're not concerned with it anymore.