Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

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 wish the army had taught us how to navigate feelings as easily as they did a starless night sky.

The dead must heed them.

The longest way round is the shortest way home

I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.

We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.

I look at things as 'Everything is meant to be.'

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.

The people who say,"What guarantee do I have?" I walk away. I'll get you later.

When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.