I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

The patriarchal society has made women believe, first of all, you're only valid and valuable when you're young.

Mexican food is one of the best culinary experiences that people can have.

Until they hired a Latina to write for Laurel [in How to Get Away with Murder], I was scared that she was going to fall into stereotypes.

Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

I love that in this movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], you almost want to go and hang out with this family.

The music in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is very much hand-picked specifically because it's our history and our traditions. The themes are universal.

I know that [Sunday is the day you spend with your family] is a tradition that I want to keep alive and I also want to share.

I think, especially with this show [How to Get Away with Murder], we have Viola Davis and Pete Nowalk as the showrunner.

[Everybody Loves Somebody] was a different take on that immigrant sort of life.

There's not enough of those inclusive projects where I feel like I'm interpreting a human being and not just a statistic or a nationality.

It seemed at momemts, When I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down to meet the sea and some great secert was to be revealed.

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

People always known me for rappin'. So I guess that maybe just hindered me, like "oh well, I mid-as-well go long term with it."

The flying? I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.

No day is without its innocent hope.

You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.

Be a Catholic: When you kneel before an altar, do it in such a way that others may be able to recognize that you know before whom you kneel.

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?