I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

If a person - any human being - is told often enough, "You are nothing. You are nothing. You account for nothing. You count for nothing. You are less than a human being. I have no visibility of you", the person finally begins to believe it.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'