I is what I is, and I'm not changing.

- Paula Deen

Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.

- Paula Deen

A balanced diet is a cookie in both hands.

- Paula Deen

There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very impor…

- Paula Deen

I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

- Paula Deen

You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama.

- Paula Deen

I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic.

- Paula Deen

Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n***ers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties. You know, in the Shirle…

- Paula Deen

Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn't a vegetable without a little ham hock.

- Paula Deen