Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.

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.

... and her name was Freedom.

He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.

It is nice to be recognised for actually achieving something in life as opposed to spending seven weeks in a house on TV with a load of other muppets.

The only thing I have to do in life is die. Everything else is a choice... including breathing.

Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

The church must always show compassion, always.

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards

I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.