Kelela Mizanekristos (Kelela) Quotes
There is this feeling among black artists that you have to be really careful. We're not inclined to talk about this stuff because, if we do, we put ourselves in a position where we're not marketable or where we can't win.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.
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People would pay money to work at CNN.
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When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.
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Growing up, I cooked in the house, and when I cooked, everyone would sit down and eat, and it was just kind of the way I connected with my family.
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I'm always pretty overworked with commercial illustration or design or animation.
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The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.
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If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.
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I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.
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There is this feeling among black artists that you have to be really careful. We're not inclined to talk about this stuff because, if we do, we put ourselves in a position where we're not marketable or where we can't win.
