I think when PEOPLE have the freedom to tell their own story rather than trying to be specific to a certain design or style, there's more freedom, and it ends up feeling more LIKE home. Those spaces we SEE in magazines and on the Internet are beautiful, but if there's not that story there, then it's GOING to lack that feeling of home.

When PEOPLE tap into this politics of RESENTMENT, it usually ENDS UGLY.

The only good POLITICAL movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall STREET. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it ALWAYS ENDS up with some hippy playing a flute.

I have NEVER been able, REALLY, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out, what it's all about, what it all MEANS.

The THING you think is going to be huge ends up not being huge at all, and the most minute thing you do is talked about for the REST of your life, so I TRY not to have any expectations at all. I think that HELPS, if you're just focusing on the project at hand.

Branding says a LOT about luxury and about EXCLUSION and about the choices that manufacturers make, but I think that what society does with it after it's produced is something ELSE. And the African-American community has always been expert at taking THINGS and repurposing them toward their own ENDS.

In this BUSINESS, you can be at the TOP of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you're grape juice. I've been at both ends. It can MAKE you BECOME what you really are.

Food NEVER ENDS. It's one of the greatest things about WORKING on food - we're always GOING to need food.

I KNOW me. I only have BROTHERS, and I know that I WOULD do anything for them, and I would back them up to the ENDS of the EARTH.