And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

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 was trying to spare her any further stress(...)I wasn’ttrying to be deceitful.

Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.

When people are rude to other people. When people belittle other people. Bullies really bother me a lot. A lot, a lot.

I just think about how many women in their workplaces have been working to get a promotion, and they look around, and then this guy comes.

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

If you plan your work, you will not find yourself standing on the corner wondering where to go next.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

My kids want to go back to Detroit everyday, that's their home. They want to be there. But Detroit is going through something that I don't want to be a part of.