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.

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.

[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.

The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.

This, in the end, is the prime purpose of a philosophy: to give us lucid ways to think about the world and how to live in it.

the world most unfortunate situations when sensible meet insensible animals (human)

Anyone can spin a victory, it's a total loss that demands creativity

He said he owned the land, He said he owned the sea, Through his sweet lies and manipulation, He was trying to own me

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.

Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.

I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character.

I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.

It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?