When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy.

When I'm walking around, I'm sometimes just perplexed at people who seem like everyday people, people who are on juries, who are in the police force, who are in control of my life in many ways.

Jealousy likes photos, that's why instagram is such a hit.

As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers.

The journey to self discovery forges many paths, the footprints left behind are the memories of what was and the belief of what is.~bns

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

It is only the dead who do not return.

In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.

The fact of the matter is that, for years, the restaurant and service industry has been, to a great extent, built on the backs of often underpaid immigrants of often dubious legal status.

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience

I'm sort of getting into the idea of nourishing your inner aspect and doing that by investing in your family and making a meal and creating time together.

If you don't have the balls to brake late, that's your problem.

I'm just naturally quite toned. My dad was like a body builder, so I've got my dad's body. Not all of it, thank God.