Character is the plot in many ways

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.

Champions realise that defeat - and learning from it even more than from winning - is part of the path to mastery.

Let your heart shine even more than your face. The beautiful contents of your heart can never be forgotten, but your face will be a history.

When you think you can, you will have the grace to take action.

And, above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.

I cared for you more that you cared yourself. Something which I regret for you didn't deserve to be cared!

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

Like the air you breathe, abundance in all things is available to you. Your life will simply be as good as you allow it to be.

I've done a lot of bad things in the past, and that troubles me. It is often before I could say I was a self.

I hate smart sales clerks. I said to one, What do you have in lingerie? She says, More than you'll ever have!