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Janelle Monae Quotes

I have worn a tuxedo, but I have never covered up for respectability politics or to shame other women.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 1, 1985

Topics

Women Politics Shame Never Up Worn

I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.

Great People Stupid Thought America

Some of my favorite music in the world is Haydn. I had a sabbatical one year and made myself one promise: to play a different Haydn piano sonata each day - they are inexhaustible treasures.

Music Myself Day World Year Play

With bad sci-fi - sci-fi that I don't really like - you watch it and get the impression that you're just seeing exactly what they created because they needed it in the movie. You feel like there's nothing more beyond that.

Feel You Seeing Bad Nothing Beyond

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

Change Men Game Rules Never Example

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

Women Power Us Naming Stolen Had

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

Myself Kind Others Illness Writer

When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame.

Lorraine Toussaint

Character Soul Small Flame Honor

I'm not Mary Poppins, but I think I functioned with integrity.

Integrity Think I Think Mary

I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.

I Am Law Doing Diligence Vote Land

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

Marriage New York Divorce New Matter

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.

William Morris Hunt

Nature Love Great People Learn Will

I am Christian, and I was very vocal about that at first until people started using it against me. Now I've learned to keep it to myself. I don't think it has anything to do with my job or how present myself. I feel like it got really twisted.

Myself Job I Am People Me Think

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