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.

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.

You can't find intimacy - you can't find home - when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.

Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.

I was really drawn to thinking about the women in my life. Thinking about my mother, who's a very powerful force on me. And I have these two very strong sisters who took up a lot of imaginary space in my life.

The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.