"There’s always somebody in my plays who’s the outsider looking in. And when you don’t fit into the family structure, …"

"It’s the duty of the playwright to sneak in as many effronteries as he can. If you act completely effrontive to peopl…"

"It was a challenge to always be a Latino to Whites, but a Cubano to L.A.’s Chicanos. I was married to a woman for awh…"

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"

"death is where jimi hendrix is, where our revolution ended up."

"There has always been something wrong wif the tesses. The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain. The tesses paint…"

""I'm tired," I says. She says, "I know you are, but you can't stop now Precious, you gotta push." And I do."

"[On the 2026 Gorton and Denton by-election] I'll be totally honest, when I heard Andy Burnham wasn't being selected, …"

"Whether we're talking about the cost of living crisis, whether we're talking about the genocide in Gaza, or generally…"

"[On standing as a parliamentary candidate] I have lived in London for more than 20 years. As soon as a by-election co…"