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I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.
- Janelle Monae
#Always
#Carry
#Classic
#Saddle
#Shoes
I'm about women's empowerment. I'm about agency. I'm about being in control of your narrative and your body.
- Janelle Monae
#About
#Body
#Control
#Empowerment
#Women
Donald Trump is trying to build a wall. I'm trying to burn walls down and build more bridges.
- Janelle Monae
#Build
#Burn
#Down
#Trying
#Walls
I had a strong visceral reaction to the 'Moonlight' script, partly because I felt I knew all of these characters.
- Janelle Monae
#Because
#Moonlight
#Reaction
#Strong
Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.
- Janelle Monae
#Art
#Beauty
#Meaning
#Three
#Understand
I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.
- Janelle Monae
#Diet
#Fish
#Great
#Stress
#Vegetables
I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to tell universal stories in an unforgettable way.
- Janelle Monae
#Crazy
#Fearless
#Lost
#Plan
#Way
When I first started in this industry, my goal was to be some best friend. The sidekick. I thought that would be an accomplishment.
- Janelle Monae
#Accomplishment
#Best
#First
#Friend
If you walk into a room that's bro'd up, and you're in power, bring more women into the room.
- Janelle Monae
#More
#Power
#Room
#Walk
#Women
I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.
- Janelle Monae
#Believe
#I Believe
#Imagination
#Live
I love the mystery behind things.
- Janelle Monae
#Behind
#I Love
#Love
#Mystery
#Things
I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.
- Janelle Monae
#Attracted
#Like
#Me
#Psycho
#Things
Black history is part of American history, and it should be treated as such.
- Janelle Monae
#American
#Black
#History
#Part
#Should
I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.
- Janelle Monae
#1920s
#Enjoy
#Feathers
#Rich
#Women
I'm a storyteller who wants to tell untold, meaningful, universal stories in unforgettable ways. I want to do it all, study it all, and find my place in it.
- Janelle Monae
#Find
#Place
#Universal
#Want
#Who
Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.
- Janelle Monae
#Enemy
#Great
#Hill
#Love
#Music
I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.
- Janelle Monae
#Fearless
#Feel
#Mistakes
#Myself
#Person
It's a big universe. To stay in one tiny place is doing a disservice to yourself.
- Janelle Monae
#Big
#Doing
#Place
#Universe
#Yourself
You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.
- Janelle Monae
#Beautiful Things
#Beautiful
#Others
#You
My grandmother was the matriarch. If you didn't have a place to stay, if you needed food, if you were just coming out of jail or rehab, you went to her. Watching her in our family and our wider community was what inspired me and still does.
- Janelle Monae
#Community
#Family
#Food
#Me
#Place
I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way.
- Janelle Monae
#Generation
#Know
#Next Generation
#Way
One of my mantras is, 'Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.' I keep that with me in my back pocket. Shoot, I keep it in my front pocket! I keep it in my hair.
- Janelle Monae
#Back
#Hair
#Me
#Uncomfortable
#Unique
I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.
- Janelle Monae
#Beauty
#Change
#Strength
#Time
#Women
One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.
- Janelle Monae
#Beautiful Woman
#Beautiful
#Music
#Woman
People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.
- Janelle Monae
#Family
#Graduation
#Love
#Music
#Song
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