For a long time, I let my mother say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed her.

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.

In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope for the soft marrow abi-deth in the hard bone.

Give up the tyranny of female charm.

It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.

Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.

We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

We seek neither convenience nor ease, but to live at the edge of possibility.

I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.

I don't have a girlfriend. I just know a girl who would get really mad if she heard me say that.

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.