Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.

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.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.

A coke machine can get a rebound in 20 minutes.

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.

We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who don't know how to clean and fry a fish.

Evolution is the secret for the next step.

I have decided not to die.

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.

Avoid the trap of looking back unless it is to glorify God for what He has done.