"If you had told me in 2004 that I would be the sole owner of four businesses, I would've said 'No,' I could have never even dreamed that all of this would have happened."
"This by far [is] one of the hardest things, if not the hardest thing, I've ever done. First of all, it's one thing to work in a restaurant. It's a whole other-other thing to own one and to own a restaurant in Harlem, and to be a Black woman in a restaurant in Harlem."
"You think that's enough until you know that it's not enough. Being undercapitalized, trying to hire people that buy into your vision, your vision of comfort, your vision of hospitality."
"So for me, the game is different. If you go to Red Lobster and those biscuits are not the same, guess what? You're going to go back next month. But if you come to Melba's and my fried chicken ain't flying, I'm gon..."
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