“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”

“I want to end the human race. But not because I don't like it. I just have a better idea.”

“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”

“Always be smarter than those who hire you”

“you have to be taught to be secondclass;your not born that way”

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”

“I disconnected myself to shield myself from people who would sway to my songs in the club and call me 'nigger' in the street. They were too busy seeing their own preconceived image of a Negro woman. the image that I chose to give them was of a woman who they could not reach and therefore can't hurt.”