[The biggest disappointment is] that he [Barack Obama] deported everybody and their grandmother.

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.

Never compromise your values.

A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being

A life like this develops the comedy sense. You can't play tragedy while you're living it.

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

I always knew that I was going be an environmental advocate when I was very young.

I'm a bit of a vagabond - a person who loses time and space because you don't know where you are.

I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else

I rejected the idea of 9/11 being exploited pornographically immediately after the tragedy, when no one else breathed a word about it.

Your thoughts are as free as any bird

So stop sulking. You're not old enough for the cool, tortured look.