People assume thoughts and processes about you that may have nothing to do with you whatsoever, but they make political assumptions and assertions about who you are based on your choice of partner.

Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are.

Don't take no as a full stop, treat it like a comma.

What is right can never be impossible.

As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.

When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to look at our present.

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

No matter our age, everyone in our household knows that cooking and eating together is where the fun is

STAR: My dad always told me that life will keep on kicking you if you let it. You’ve got to keep moving, and you’ve got to not look back.

As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted, because it is all so familiar.

I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.

The older you get, the more people think they have to listen to you.

The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.

The Champagne they have stored is getting more valuable every year.

I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They'd eaten each other.

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.