For a long time, I let my mother say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed her.

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.

Part of it is eight years of a black president, and white America still lost their [minds] about that. Part of it is a Republican politics of vicious, vicious partisan [stuff] that has completely poisoned what we would call the political rhetorical sphere. All of these things come together in a perfect storm.

Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.

Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.

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

As a Dominican man, you're socialized to be a playboy. You spend a lot of time being taught that women are important, but without the really positive framework of why. You figure out quickly it's because of culo (ass). But there is a sense that it's not that simple.