Kelela Mizanekristos (Kelela) Quotes
In the music industry, you can't create success without having to engage a white man. It's just not possible. Whether it's executives, A&Rs, and the people that hold the key to your paper, inevitably, you'll be met with whiteness.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.
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My music comes from heartbreak - from feeling what it's like to lose everything and not being able to express it through words because it doesn't make sense.
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I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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When people come to me with an idea and they say, 'We can do it found footage or traditional,' I always say to do it traditionally.
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In the music industry, you can't create success without having to engage a white man. It's just not possible. Whether it's executives, A&Rs, and the people that hold the key to your paper, inevitably, you'll be met with whiteness.
