Brooke Valentine (Kanesha Nichole Brookes) Quotes
I really wanted my music to reflect my personal life and what I set out to do every day.

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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.
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I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.
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Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.
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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.
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I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.
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I'm a big fan, and I like the idea of fighting Roy Jones Jr.
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I like to think I put some of myself in every character.
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I love evening tuberoses. My mother used to have tuberoses in her garden, and in the summers in Sacramento, it would get really hot and then cool down in the evenings. You'd walk up the driveway, and it made it feel like 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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Trust me: if I had something interesting to say about myself, I would.
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I used to be so aggressive, but after a while I started learning. It's not that I know how to adapt, but I know all styles of fighting so I can change my style of fighting to whatever it needs to be. That just comes from years of training and a lot of sparring partners.
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I really wanted my music to reflect my personal life and what I set out to do every day.