If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble.

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.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach

Love while there is a still a blessed possibility to love.

The Bible is God’s gift to us. It came from God, and it points us to God.

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

Her exceptional beauty also helps her to keep her secrets. Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty

You've got a deep core of sweetness that's quite incorruptible.

It's a great group of people here at Texas A&M, and everybody you run into is incredibly polite.

We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins drop with age, and he didn't want to look that way.

I'm not one of these guys to do my solo stuff one night and Black Sabbath the next. I can't do that, you know. It's too much to handle.

I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.