All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
My go-to necktie is jet black, skinny, and simple. It goes with everything. I really like that mod-ish punk look.
There are things which cannot be clarified even by the mighty black board. Sit and talk to your close friends for that!
There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.
My school was 90 percent white, but 90 percent of the kids I played with were black. So I got the best of both worlds. I think that is where my comedy developed.
The greatest question of all is whether our experience on this planet is 'it' or whether there is something else. Things in the supernatural realm give support, strangely perhaps, to the things we take on faith.
I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.
Organize yourself so you aren't struggling to shop at the last minute. When you have real food, it's very easy to cook.
Basically, the person in the White House should be principled, should have a philosophy about food that relates directly to organic agriculture. I will continue to push for that.
Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.
They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.
Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.
As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.
The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.
Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
I can't negate the theory that the Huxtables on 'The Cosby Show' may have helped pave the way for the Obama family. People enjoyed watching that black family.
We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.
