I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.

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.

If you got on your knees and counted all of the blessings, goodness, grace, favour and kindness in your life, you would find that you would exhaust the whole day and will still have more to share.

Love brings passionate patience to create a wonderful world of beauty and magnificence.

I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.

The presence you create is the presence you command.

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

Find something that makes you happy and don't let anyone take it away from you.

I don't want no lies, I don't watch TV. I don't waste my time, won't read a magazine.

A life which did not touch the life of others is a wasted life!

Music is one big thing to me.

Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barac k Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.