"I was baking cakes for a gourmet shop and put two chocolate cakes in oven to bake and when I opened the oven an hour later, they were raw - the oven wasn't working. I didn't know what to do. I couldn't borrow an oven and I didn't want to waste the batter, so I came up with the idea of steaming them and they came out great! Thick and fudgy, like pudding cake. That happy accident was always in the back of mind."

“Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me.”

“I know that all things are possible through Jesus Christ.”

“The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.”

Source : "Ed Balls: Yorkshire beef and Westminster lasagne parties" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

“I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.”

Source : Henry Ossawa Tanner, Anna O. Marley (2012). “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit”, p.139, Univ of California Press

“No woman is likely ever to be elected President - they never reach the required legal age.”

“Dating a white girl is like dating a black girl if she were really passive-agressive.”

“They're trying to make fuel cells a reality. They want to bring the hydrogen economy to the United States.”

“Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.”