M. Ali Quotes

My ex-husband happens to be one of the most gifted moviemakers. And what is so bizarre about working with someone like that? I guess it is bizarre to be good friends with your ex-husband.

I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.

People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word.

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

Am I going to be able to be the person I want to be in this relationship?

I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look.

There are so many kinds of love, and they're all very intense for me.

It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.

The only legitimate government in the world, is the Iranian government.

Bush has said something new. He said, "If I will be president again, I will be a man of peace and serenity." May the Lord curse the liars, wherever they may be.

You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed.

The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.

Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.

I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one.

Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.

I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.

When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job.

The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

A society that is not founded on morality falls apart and becomes easy prey to puritan cults such as Islam that on the surface, promote family values and morality.

There was a time when everyone thought that Earth was flat. Did this unanimous consensus make any difference to the shape of Earth?

There is no compulsion in Islam. You convert "voluntarily". But you are free not to convert by accepting subjugation, humiliation, discrimination and constant harassment. What can be more democratic?

Muslims want the western countries to apologize. Why? because this gives them a sense of empowerment. It makes them feel good about themselves, it stokes their ego.

There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.

All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.

remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need.

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.

I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.

I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.

The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

Today, we see ISIS dwindling. We see that terrorist organization, with all their bravado, losing their territory and going back from a proto-state to an underground terrorist organization.

Anyone who does not in their way of interpreting events around the world is an infidel, regardless if you're a Muslim or you're not a Muslim. That doesn't matter.

Sixteen years after 9/11, we still don't even know what to call the enemy, rather than form a comprehensive strategy.

We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.

Success is to achieve some of your dreams that you have dreamed as a boy.

Success is a lot of things. In my personal life it is to have my own family with me, to give all my best to let my daughter have a better life than me, better choices.

Life should be all about change. But some things shouldn't change. And my three-piece suits are one of those things.

Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.

There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.

The universe holds enough happiness and success for everyone.

Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.

All my serving utensils are measured. It's not obvious, because they're really beautiful, but I have the option of tracking what I'm eating. That helps me be smart about it.

Jihad is nothing but making efforts to realise goodness in life.