Kelela Mizanekristos (Kelela) Quotes
As a black woman, there's so much pride and communication through hair. It's naturally something that you are excited to embellish on and be creative about.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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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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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.
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When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.
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Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.
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It's hard when you have a lot of naysayers to know when they might be right or when to ignore them and go with your gut and do something that may seem risky.
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I practically lived in the woods when I was a kid, avoiding grown-ups and my dysfunctional family, pretending I was half-wolf, a feral child who napped in nests made out of ferns, ate wild blueberries, and wove sticks and feathers into her hair.
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I'm still the way I've always been. Lots of hair and eyes, a bit Raquel Welch-ish.
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We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.
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As a black woman, there's so much pride and communication through hair. It's naturally something that you are excited to embellish on and be creative about.
