The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

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.

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 anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.

Without love, life is unsustainable.

The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

Many strange things happen in this world

To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.

It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded.

I will tell you something else, King, which may be a surprise for you. It will not happen for hundreds of years, but both of us are to come back.

There are so many quiet times you spend as a mother that aren't glorified but are a foundation for your kids. No matter what, there was always a thick safety net under this trapeze.

I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.

The more I see of dogs, the more I like children.