Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of me.

I want to find things that challenge me.

I do believe that everyone has something to contribute.

Everything happens when it's supposed to.

I didn't realize that diets don't work, and I did not want to diet. I didn't want to do anything that required dieting.

We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until we learn to assimilate and learn about other cultures, we will continue to have racism problems. Of course, there are other '-isms' as our ills. We have sexism, ageism, elitism, homophobia-ism, there are many -isms we have to overcome.

I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.