When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.

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.

I've never had much use for religion, except when it comes to swearing or begging for mercy.

Let me hate you as passionately as I loved you.

I'm a complete technophobe. I can't even email.

There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me.

For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play.

Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?

Montefiore's impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well as their tools in the Church, although I denounce them.

Goals don't start in our brain; they start in our heart.

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.