I had decided I wanted to write about food and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Once you're in a particular country and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

You know I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek to Mos to DJ Quik to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

Well for me what I've learned at the very end of this love is sharing and I think that really is for me the best place to go to experience love is sharing.

Before this learning experience I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons and liberals who supported them.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.