I sustain myself with the love of family. - Maya Angelou

"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."

"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."

"Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life."

"I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive."

"If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart."