Kelela Quotes

I am not carefree. I'm just not. I experience an immense amount of joy, a crazy amount of joy through sadness and so much struggle. There's something problematic about 'carefree black girl.'

Kelela

Recitation: by Male by Female

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GirlExperienceStruggleI AmJoy

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.

Andy Warhol

GreatThinkAmericaTraditionYou

Nobody wants to shut down the government.

Jeb Hensarling

GovernmentDownNobodyWantsShut

When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.

Michael Graves

DoorBuildingDesignEnoughYouGet

You go to the gym to make sure you have the stamina to breathe in the corsets.

Sondra Radvanovsky

YouGymGoBreatheSureStamina

At the end of each year, I sit on the floor and go page by page through the old calendar, inking annual events into the new one, all the while watching my year in 'dinner withs' skate by. When I'm done, I save the old calendar in the box of the new one and put it with the others on a shelf.

Sloane Crosley

DinnerEndYearCalendarNewDone

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

Trevor Nunn

DecisionHardDirectorFinalFilm

The thing about my fridge is, it's a family fridge, so there's a little of something everybody likes in there.

Martina McBride

FamilyLittleSomethingLikesFridge

We do spend too much time on the telephone, and you know something? We love it.

Michio Kaku

LoveTimeYouToo MuchKnowMuch

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

Julia Child

LoveGodHateReligionThinkYou

We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.

Judy Holliday

WorkGreatMoneyHideClubPaid

Racism comes in many different forms. Sometimes it's subtle, and sometimes it's overt. Sometimes it's violent, and sometimes it's harmless, but it's definitely here. It's something that I think we're all guilty of, and we just have to make sure that we deal with our own personal racism in the right way.

Jordan Peele

RacismThinkGuiltySometimesWay

We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.

Jared Diamond

StarsStartIceStopDinosaursSome

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