Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes
My grandmother was the matriarch. If you didn't have a place to stay, if you needed food, if you were just coming out of jail or rehab, you went to her. Watching her in our family and our wider community was what inspired me and still does.
Janelle Monae
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
P. J. O'Rourke
I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
Foxy Brown
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. Pritchett
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
E. W. Howe
I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
Taylor Sheridan
Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
Samira Wiley
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
Abigail Breslin
Often I am asked, 'Why are you investing in bitcoin and VR? Those markets dont exist.' You mean they do not exist - yet.
Brayton Williams
Civic participation over a lifetime, working in neighborhoods and communities and service of all kinds - military and civilian, full-time and part-time, national and international - will strengthen America's civic purpose.
John McCain
Moving to India was challenging being a foreigner. I don't have any family here. I didn't have anyone to guide me. But I never felt for a second that I am not welcome here.
Jacqueline Fernandez
My grandmother was the matriarch. If you didn't have a place to stay, if you needed food, if you were just coming out of jail or rehab, you went to her. Watching her in our family and our wider community was what inspired me and still does.
Janelle Monae