You know how it is when you get back with somebody you’ve loved. It felt better than it ever was, better than it ever could be again

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.

Don't second guess yourself. You know the right answer and what's best for you. Life is so much easier once you realize this.

If you have answered God’s call and made the decision to fulfill your calling, then the devil will try to destroy you

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.

legal investigation. As Clinton noted, “My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful.

You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind.

If you ask the great city, ‘Who is this person?, ’ she will answer, ‘He is my child.

And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.

I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular.

You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.