He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me.

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you

Rome was not built in a day, but it was built everyday.

Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.

We're all being tested...That's what life is.

Spook: No, I'm not troubled. In fact, I actually think everything is going to be all right. Finally.

There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.

Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing!

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

So this chocolate princess. Her knight in shining armor is the Easter Bunny.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.