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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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
Haley Joel Osment
We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
Federica Mogherini
It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
Gavin Newsom
I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
Tamron Hall
I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
Obie Trice
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
Lipstick doesn't really suit me. For shoots or when I go out, I use it - but if I use it all the time, it makes me look really old, so I keep it natural with nude or a natural pink. Though I did just do a shoot where they did a big red lip, and it looked amazing.
Jess Glynne
God definitely blessed me with power. I still don't know the limits of my own power.
Deontay Wilder
Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.
Lou Brock
One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.
Marilynne Robinson
I have a regular, normal private life.
Francois-Henri Pinault
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