Everyone can cook. If you try. If you put a little love into it.

Why can't we have fine black restaurants with fine service by black people who always gave good service? Because we thought that is demeaning and it's not, it's a good living.

You worry too much about what goes into your mouth and not enough about what comes out of it.

When someone helps you, then that means one thing, all they expect in return is for you to show them what you're doing and for you to help someone else.

You've got to live life to the fullest. You just enjoy every beautiful thing there is to enjoy.

I'm still learning....learning from my great grandchildren and everyone around me. I would advise others to keep trying, stop and listen.

We still have a long way to go but if we work together and we work hard, you'll see black people in positions you never thought we'd be in. I thought I would never see a black President.

The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who do govern are not elected.

If the angels are unkind or the season is dark Or if in the end Love just falls apart Well then here's to our destruction Baby let me be your soul driver.

Have you ever thought about toothpaste? Ellen has! And she makes a point about all of the types of toothpaste that Colgate offers!

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.

Can you question who you are? And are you comfortable with not knowing?

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!

I don’t know what the explosion did, but it damaged something deep and irreparable. Never mind. If I get home, I’ll be so stinking rich, I’ll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.