Life has a truth to it, and it's complicated - it's love and it's hatred.

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.

Life is like yoga

What do you tell of yourself? Speak words of faith.

Never laugh at the fate of others, you are the next

Each of us has a tongue and a voice. These instruments of speech can be used destructively or employed constructively.

I love lyrics. They help me to figure things out.

There's this huge number of desperate people.

Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi.

There are a lot of reasons to doubt things.

See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.

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