“I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies.”

I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina.

The salvation of man is through love and in love.

I don’t watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of ‘Grimm’, I get a little tense because I know someone’s going to jump out of somewhere.

I am never happier than when I am on set and getting to act. And I can’t wait for what is yet to come.

I love Spain. It’s my favorite country that I’ve been to and I’ve traveled quite a bit. I’ve been really fortunate as an adult to have been to a lot of interesting places like Egypt and China.

How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.

The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.

When you talk about hip-hop, you’re talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.

Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There’s the rap which is a form of hip hop culture.

What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.

All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It’s so deeply ingrained in the culture.

The assumption that women are a subgroup, that men’s culture is the ‘real’ world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the ‘great’ or ‘liberalizing’ periods of history have been the same for women as for men.

To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.