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

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.

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.

Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

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.

Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

. . . nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings!

The longer you remain distant, the deeper, wider, and darker the chasm becomes making it all the more difficult to bridge.

It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being home away from home.

You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.

No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

[When making movies I] set out to be authentic to [myself] and to put it down the way [I] feel it and know it and interpret it. And then others sometimes key into it and get it.

I was 17 and the whole thing was very confusing at the time. It was a great job and I loved it, and to lose the role was definitely tough for me. I was devastated when I lost the role.

I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.

Unless carefree, mother love was a killer.