It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday..

Food historian Jessica B. Harris says African American cuisine is simply what black people ate. When I think about what my family ate, we ate what pe….

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking..

I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, ….

The FDA is now warning people not to eat raw cookie dough this holiday season. Is that how fat we're getting in this country? Our ovens are too slow ….

I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern work ethic. I like good holidays, though. I….

He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that det….

We are what we are, wherever we are..

She attracted him more than he liked..

I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something..

He who commences many things finishes but few..

We're nothing without science. Nothing..

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for..

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth..

I like to be the one in charge of everything..

The old Lena is dead..

That’s what you do for family. Anything..

I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -.

Never throw out anyone..

Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely.

That's as good as money, sir. Those are I.O.U.s..