Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.

Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.

- Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself. - But your yourself sucks! - It is, lamentably, all I have.

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.

Every time you hear anyone talk about the Caribbean, whether it's Caribbeans themselves or people outside, there's always talk about women's bodies. Talk about this voluptuousness, this kind of stereotype of what a Caribbean person is. And I think these are stereotypes that even people inside the culture, we actually sometimes claim them and we're very proud.