I hope that we start trendsetting [with Everybody Loves Somebody], you know, like having bigger movies also include that. Because I think it'll definitely change a lot of what's going on right now.

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

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.

Love is a strange feeling indeed, a feeling that every person must experience at least once in his or her life. A feeling that makes us feel one with God!

And in the depths of music, I didn’t find the answer, And again there was silence, and again the ghost of summer.

True faith is when you see the harvest before you plant the seed.

When you change yourself, you inspire others, and this inspiration changes the world.

Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on what's happening within this box of a ramp.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it.

If you provide the drive, dream, and vision, with God’s help, you can accomplish anything.

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

Your lifetime in form is to be honored and celebrated. Go beyond your enslavement, and live fully in the now, as this is the only time you have.