I remember I went through a period where I didn't embrace my 'chocolatiness.' I don't know if that's a word, but I didn't embrace my chocolate lifestyle. Just being a chocolate, lovely brown skin girl and being proud of that.
When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.
Me and Jaden just figured out that our voices sound like chocolate together. As good as chocolate tastes, it sounds that good.
I'm an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn't break the way it warned. Even crazy, I'm as nice as a chocolate bar.
[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains.
To me, it's not the end of the world if I end up not being with someone. I love romance. I love sex. I love men's company, but I don't feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate. But my life goes on whether they're there or not.
God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.
This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. This city will be a majority-African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way.
I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.
I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.
I thought, 'It doesn't matter what that woman is wearing,' but then I realised actually it's our job as designers to make women smile; to bring them the chocolate without the calories.
Not all roles you do can be chocolate sweet.
