I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.
“There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.”
“I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.”