Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

Soup dumplings, sitcoms, one-night stands--good ones leave you wanting more.

Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn’t Asian either

People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.

For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.

There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.

I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

I don’t do coupons or Reeboks. Life is too short to half-step.

America ain’t three fifths bad.

Healing facilitates lasting change

Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards

When someone does'nt wanna talk to you, you have no choice but to help them.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

The first thing I would do would be to move forward with an agenda to make sure that we give D.C. the opportunity to elect its own representatives and have some political power on Capitol Hill.

The purpose of life is to remember.

The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.

Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane.