Don't play safe. Cook outside of your comfort zone, otherwise you're just going to do the same things.

Kids get very animated when it comes to food and it's nice to see how they react.

We only get better by pushing ourselves.

Kids are very visual, and they might not eat a food just because of its colour.

We all have firm favourites we bring out at a dinner parties, but it's nice to try something a bit more edgy, or more time-consuming.

If you look at the new places opening, they're quite gutsy, earthy places.

Worry only wears the body, soul and spirit.

We have not come [here] for fame

Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

I'm not worried about misconception or a perception that's bad. If I were, I'd be chasing something all the time.

According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light.

If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease.

My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.

There's nothing that I buy that I don't wear.

Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.

Even a family needs to work as a team.