We need to get better at voting and be a voice for the people who do not have one.

I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

No particular race is the enemy. Ignorance is the enemy.

When I was 10 there wasnt trampolines and cartoon charaters, I never went to Chuck E Cheese! My mom said 'You wanna see a mouse pull the refrigerator Out!'

Whoever is my relative, I will not be nice to them.

We're Mexi-cans not Mexi-can'ts.

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

I'm a big fan of reality shows. I thought the first one, Dukes of Hazzard, captured white people perfectly.

Y'know, if those pews reclined, and the priests gave the Raiders scores I'd go to church every Sunday.

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.

I usually congratulate people when they tell me, "I don't know who I am anymore".

I feel the same way about clothes as I do about food. I want everything.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

Good listeners are perceived as good conversationalists.

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.