In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.

I like to know what's happening.

There's something beautiful about the fact that Obama was not just elected, but elected decisively across racial, and socio-economic and cultural groups and that we all celebrated in his win.

All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.