Joan Rivers - Stand-Up (1966)
I’m Jewish. I don’t work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.
- Joan Rivers
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car (1988)

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It’s something I don’t feel like I really control.
- Tracy Chapman
Mireille Mathieu - L'Autre (1981)
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In the life of a singer, it’s not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it’s the last thing you feel like doing.
- Mireille Mathieu
Nirvana - Come As You Are (1991)
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I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay, even though I wasn’t.
- Kurt Cobain
Goldie Hawn @ Rowan&Martin's Laugh-In (1968)
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
- Goldie Hawn
Nina Simone - Ain't Got No/I Got Life (1968)

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
- Nina Simone
Alice In Wonderland (1951)

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: / All mimsy were the borogroves, / And the mome raths outgrabe.
The Color Purple (1985)
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I’m poor, black, I might even be ugly, but dear God, I’m here. I’m here.

