Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.

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.

Every challenge, I have faced, dares me to seek a higher power.

Belonging to another man and therefore not even a little bit to him.

And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.

I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence

I'm a real conservative. I never became a hippie, or a groupie. I never wore flowers in my hair.

Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.