A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

We buy too much stuff we just don't need. We're trying to look cute for next weekend when we ought to be thinking about the next decade.

A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

Madam Walker was an incredible woman, but she wasn't the only one of her time who was. She just took it to the highest height.

A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

I was like other teenagers in the late 1960s; I too was very interested in having an Afro and getting rid of the perm that was in my hair.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

I'm too vain to go on TV. I'd be a monster of self-consciousness. Plus, I've got a ridiculous voice - I sound like a camp friend of Bertie Wooster's.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

A cravat is the only item of named after Croatians. Balkan mercenaries were brought to Paris by Louis XIV. Their strange and exotic attire attracted the French bon hommes, who were wearing formal ruffs, and who immediately took to the simple and relaxed military cloth tied at the neck.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

I've often been accused of dressing too well. I've always been fascinated by fashion, though I don't think I'm particularly fashionable.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do with knowing.

A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua

I was proud my father spoke Arabic fluently - his father sent him to learn Arabic from a sheikh - and we had Arab friends. His task of understanding the Arabs - not only politics but poetry - was very important; he took it as a vocation.