New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.

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.

The force is within you force yourself.

Jefferson determined the lodestar that lay hidden in the motivations of others

Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.

For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.

My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old.

As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

My dream was to play Major League baseball. I've lived that dream.

Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others more attracted to them.

And an airplane of spittle dived into the sea, there were no salivas.