Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.

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.

Yeah, baby! And you are the magnet and I'm the steel! Bring to me your leather, take from me my lace!

Some religious guys in sports give the impression, 'I've got something you don't have.'

If the worst is going to happen, it'll happen. Worrying can't protect you from that. And if it doesn't happen then you've missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

Where doubt is, there faith has no power.

Shhhhhh, shhhhhh, says the sea, but I don't believe her.

Believers should be more concerned for God's opinion of them than for what human opponents might do to their bodies.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

Foreign newspapers: if they've got nothing to hide, how come they don't print them in English?