I think that if you're writing about the human condition, my God, you've got to start at base: point zero, point one, is the body.

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.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?"The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

There is no sanctity. This is the downfall of innocence.

See, decide, attack, reverse.

You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

All the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world.

The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.

Don't say maybe if you want to say no.

How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!