I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't agree with God's choice for the colors of the people's skin.

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

I've had rainbows in my clouds.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.