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

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!'

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.

if you make waffles, throw out the first one.

A feeling can't kill you.

It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son.

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Don't go through life, grow through life.

My sister and I never engaged in sibling rivalry. Our parents weren't that crazy about either one of us.

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it

I don't love you anymore. Goodbye.

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.