Spin is 'something is beautiful because we say it's beautiful.'

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.

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes!

Where our bread is concerned it is a material matter. Where our neighbor's bread is concerned it is a spiritual matter.

Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats.

A remarkable feature of Islam is that it gives dignity even to the humblest illiterate peasants. It gives them a certain human dignity which one doesn't find in other societies.

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.

We've got to find another way of producing energy.

Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.