Kelela Mizanekristos (Kelela) Quotes
Fog and one blue light is all I need in life at the club. Just a dark room and loud music. I'm into that.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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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'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.
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I'm a total stationery fiend - I have drawers and drawers of lovely printed cards and wrapping paper.
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I guess people might be surprised to know I read comic books. I'm a Marvel girl, as opposed to DC.
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Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.
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Models are people. A lot of people like to make us some species that are not human; we are normal people.
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Fog and one blue light is all I need in life at the club. Just a dark room and loud music. I'm into that.
