"Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
More by Maya Angelou
“When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement.”
“People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people feel there is a purpose and that they're needed, there's not much else to do except let them do the work.”
“We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.”
More on Food
“Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.”
“I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Some one needs to tell the turkey, 'man, just be yourself.'”
“I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.”
More on Memory
“Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.”
“There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink in the dark: light out of the past. It was actually pleasant, I think, to hear a kindly voice agin, bringing up memories of wind, and trees, and sun on the grass, and such forgotten things.”
“If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?”