That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.

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.

Call on Jesus Christ in any circumstance.

If you bear the cross unwillingly you make it a burden and load yourself more heavily but you must bear it.

I went down to Miami, and somebody saw me on the streets, and that's how I got into modeling.

That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.

With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.

Mitch”, but then reattach it and call it “Mitch-all-together.

It's a cold world, better pack your own heat.

The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate.