Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes
I'm about women's empowerment. I'm about agency. I'm about being in control of your narrative and your body.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.
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I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to work with, but there's something about Quentin, and one of my all-time favorite films is 'Kill Bill.' Something along those lines would be such a blast.
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As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.
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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.
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My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
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I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.
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The Congo is so fun. The ideal body type coveted by women in the Congo is this extremely curvaceous body. They're going through a number of extreme measures to get that kind of body form, and one of them is by using bouillon cubes.
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I have so much fun because I love to meet the women who wear my shoes and meet the clients. That, to me, is the best part - getting to know the faces of the people who actually wear my shoes and getting to have a conversation with them.
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Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
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The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.
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The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.
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The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.
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I think it's weird seeing myself on the television, but it's great!
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I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.
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I'm about women's empowerment. I'm about agency. I'm about being in control of your narrative and your body.
