A Quote by Plato

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Plato

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Plato
Greek - Philosopher
427 BC - 347 BC

If there was ever a food that had politics behind it, it is soul food. Soul food became a symbol of the black power movement in the late 1960s. Chef Marcus Samuelsson, with his soul food restaurant Red Rooster in Harlem, is very clear about what soul food represents. It is a food of memory, a food of labor.

Marcie Cohen Ferris

Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.

Erykah Badu

The food we call soul food is slave food. We were forced to eat it.

Eric Adams

The 'good food' is...the food of the Word of God, for as food builds up the tissues of the body, repairs waste, and preserves us in health, so the Word of God is the complete food of the soul.

William Griffith Thomas

There is soul music, soul food, and soul love.

Dalai Lama

There are a couple of different types of food I eat a lot. I was raised in the South, in Tennessee, so I’m going to go with comfort food, soul food. I would probably start with collard greens and candied baby carrots and then have some biscuits and white gravy - and for dessert, probably blackberry cobbler.

Megan Fox

Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?

Salman Rushdie

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

Dorothy Day

I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.

China Machado

Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.

Gaines Adams

Food is a great literary theme. Food in eternity, food and sex, food and lust. Food is a part of the whole of life. Food is not separate.

Jim Harrison

Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.

John Kennedy Toole

Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.

Matthew Fox

Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.

Malcolm Forbes

Without strenuous preplanning, road food is almost always bad food, sad food, chain food, clown food.

Jonathan Miles

People remember the different variations of stuffed cabbage based on their mothers and grandmothers. It's not just about food. Eating something as traditional as this is a cultural experience, one that is spiritual and nostalgic. It manages to transcend time; it's food for the soul.

Gil Marks

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