Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.
My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.
I really like having someone who knows about food and what goes well together make a meal for me.
The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.
Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.
When I was a teenager, my parents made me take a part-time job at the local Black Eyed Pea, which was a home-cooked-food family restaurant.
We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.
Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.
My wardrobe is drab. I could spend six weeks in the same jeans. Most everything I have is blue or black, but certainly not cool.
Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink.
You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.
The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.
If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.
