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“I think of books as like a life raft. They save us from mundanity, they draw us to a poetic, multi-faceted world. We all need that.”

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Londoners are really good at dealing with any crap that's thrown at them. We hunker down, we grit our teeth and we get on…

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There's something about garnering success as you get older that means you're ready for it. I feel a lot of things would have been…

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There's a honey-baked chicken dish I've done for 45 years at least. Our kids crave it, whether happy or sad.

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There's this idea that at 53 somehow you're winding down. Rubbish!

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Miquita and I get so frustrated going into beauty shops that are supposed to cater for Black women and being met by staff who…

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I don't think my two loves - music and food - are that different. They've certainly served me well.

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I struggle with my weight - up and down like a yo-yo.

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How can knowing more be a bad thing? You can only look each other in the eye when you know the history the world…

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Crisp on the outside, fluffy on the inside - in Caribbean cooking we love a fritter. It's a brilliant way for a dish with…

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There's a Guyanese pepperpot that's a completely different dish to the Antiguan dish. And then they don't really make pepperpot in Jamaica.

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I think people make things a bit dense when they don't need to be.

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My own mother drilled into me the importance of looking after your skin.

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I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

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