Janelle Monae Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Inspiring, Beautiful, Fashion

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• I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them. Becoming a CoverGirl is truly and honor and a gift: it opens up a new platform for me to inspire women to feel stronger, braver and more beautiful inside and out.

  Janelle Monae

  Beautiful, Believe, Inspire

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• Redefine what it means to be sexy and what it means to be a woman. Showing my skin is not what makes me sexy. I like skirts and dresses just like everyone else, but I had a message I needed to put out there. It was up to me to show people and young girls there was another way.

  Janelle Monae

  Girl, Sexy, Powerful

  "Janelle Monae For ESSENCE, Talks Body Image, ‘Showing My Skin Is Not What Makes Me Sexy’" By Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2013.

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• 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, Wonder, Hills

  "Hot Tracks: Janelle Monáe". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. September 2012.

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• I'm always thinking about young people first when I'm writing music. Whenever I can reach that young person and inspire them to go after their own dreams, start their own movement just like I did with Wondaland. Starting their own tribe and showing people that we are not all the same, we're not all monolithic. I think that's what it's all about for me.

  Janelle Monae

  Dream, Writing, Thinking About You

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I'm a believer that the more I'm giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be.

  Janelle Monae

  Beautiful, Giving, Believer

  "Janelle Monáe on Her Diet, Hair and Beauty Swagger". www.glamour.com. February 11, 2013.

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• Everything is about balance. You can't work, work, work, work without any play.

  Janelle Monae

  Inspirational, Play, Balance

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• 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

  Song, Art, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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, Stories

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• Android is a new form of the other, but you can parallel the other to so many different types of people. Even if you don't consider yourself to be the other, at one point in time I'm sure you felt like that.

  Janelle Monae

  People, Different, Androids

  "Janelle Monáe on The Electric Lady and Bo Diddley". Interview with Eric Thurm, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2013.

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• When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

  Janelle Monae

  Artist, Makeup, Hair

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• No matter if you wear a small amount of makeup, no makeup, or heavy makeup, as long as you feel beautiful internally and you're doing beautiful things for other people, and not just focusing on the exterior to make yourself happy, I think you should do what works for you. You should rock on.

  Janelle Monae

  Beautiful, Makeup, Thinking

  Source: feeds.glamour.com

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• I love the mystery behind things.

  Janelle Monae

  Mystery, Behinds

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's hard for me to be serious. I can't really rub oil on me and go all the way with it [laughs]. I hear some screams and I laugh to myself. I always get a kick out of it. I'm three feet tall, basically.

  Janelle Monae

  Oil, Feet, Laughing

  Source: www.spin.com

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• First, before I'm an artist, before I'm a celebrity, I'm a human being.

  Janelle Monae

  Artist, Firsts, Humans

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'" by Brittany Vickers, www.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

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• The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had to wear a uniform every day. It keeps me grounded.

  Janelle Monae

  Black And White, Color, Class

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'" by Brittany Vickers, edition.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

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• I'm always thinking about that young girl or young boy who doesn't quite know if their music, their messaging, their imaging, their voice is going to pop, if people are going to understand them. So I represent the other and those who feel like they don't even want to be normal. They embrace the things that make them unique.

  Janelle Monae

  Girl, Boys, Unique

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'" by Brittany Vickers, www.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

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• I don’t even know at what age I started, because it’s always been there. Performing … creating … it’s in my DNA.

  Janelle Monae

  Dna, Creating, Age

  "Hot Tracks: Janelle Monáe". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. September 2012.

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• I think if people genuinely want to help ... that'll shine through, no matter what color or what race. We cannot see race before compassion.

  Janelle Monae

  Thinking, Compassion, Race

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'" by Brittany Vickers, www.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

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• I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.

  Janelle Monae

  Jewels, Rich, Enjoy

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• I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.

  Janelle Monae

  Scare, Psycho, My Favorite

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• I know what I like; if you go to my closet, I have at least four of everything.

  Janelle Monae

  Four, Closets, Knows

  "Hot Tracks: Janelle Monáe". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. September 2012.

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• Perfection is the often the enemy of greatness.

  Janelle Monae

  Greatness, Perfection, Enemy

  "Janelle Monáe On Being a Former Maid and Why She Still Wears a Uniform". Janelle Monae's speech at BET's Black Girls Rock 2012 awards ceremony at Paradise Theater in New York City, www.colorlines.com. October 13, 2012.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I was made to believe there's something wrong with me.

  Janelle Monae

  Believe, Made

  Song: Cold War, Album: The ArchAndroid, 2010

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