If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
I'm still amazed at how much people are willing to humiliate themselves to be on TV.
Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?
In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken.
I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way. . . When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.
I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.
People wouldn't go on Facebook unless they wanted to share with groups of people. But there is this perception that you have been on a course to push people's information where it's visible across the Internet unless they do a bunch of stuff.
I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.