Top 100 Janelle Quotes
#2. You look good, Clearwater. Been working out?' Danie teased.
'He does, doesn't he?'Janelle agreed. 'This will totally work.'
James' eyes darted back and forth between the girls, his head spinning. 'Wait, what will work?
Brandi Salazar
#3. I wonder about my sister Janelle, too, who does know and wrote me this email - this long, long email that I had to close and not look at, because the first paragraph contained the words 'I forgive you', and I don't want anyone's forgiveness.
I'm not the one who has to be forgiven.
Robin York
#4. When I first went to kindergarten kids asked me what I was. I did not understand-I'm a person. They explained that I look a little different and it is not as easy to tell which color I am. -Janelle from Who I Am Not What I Am, Tara Michener
Tara Michener
#5. People are consuming more than ever, but I think they want a bit of honesty and depth. Adele, Gotye, Janelle Monae - they're giving you a catchy song, but it's also a challenging song at the same time.
Kimbra
#6. Maybe in life, most of us feel inferior because we compare our dress rehearsals to [Janelle Monae's] final performance.
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Bill Konigsberg
#7. Janelle Monae, she has her own style, and it's specifically hers.
Zendaya
#8. You are real! Everyone has to be different or the world would be really boring. If we all looked the same, then no one could tell us apart. -Janelle
Tara Michener
#9. Lauryn Hill's always been a hero of mine. And Bruno Mars, Janelle Monae and Adele, those are the current artists I would reference in terms of who's been able to do really amazing pop records with really cool, organic throwback elements of soul in there as well.
Judith Hill
#10. When the zipper snaps open, Ben pauses, his breath hot in my ear. "Janelle Tenner," he whispers. "I fucking love you.
Elizabeth Norris
#11. Part of what my music represents is to stand up and be the voice of those who feel like they are not heard and want to be treated with respect regardless of race, color, orientation - android, cyborg, whatever.
Janelle Monae
#12. 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
#13. I've never shot any man who didn't demand it, one way or another."
-Lynx
Janelle Taylor
#14. I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me,
Janelle Monae
#15. There came a time when a person had to admit they were insane. Clara reached that point yesterday. Dusting
Janelle Daniels
#16. 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
#17. Next time we meet, my flame-haired beauty, my chivalrous promise will be worthless. Rest assured, we will meet again."
-Lynx (in a note to Callie)
Janelle Taylor
#18. 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
#19. Children go with whatever makes them feel good - like if that's the color green or orange, they do that with their clothes. As I've grown older, everything reversed. My music, my personality - onstage those things became my colors.
Janelle Monae
#20. I love great music and if it doesn't move me I don't listen to it.
Janelle Monae
#22. Even though I wasn't there, you were always with me. Always.
Elizabeth Norris
#23. Bring wings to the weak and bring grace to the strong
May all evil stumble as it flies in the world
All the tribes comes and the mighty will crumble
We must brave this night and have faith in love
Janelle Monae
#24. Things might not go as planned, but at the end of the day it's up to me to take the risks and do what I love most. And I don't owe anybody an explanation. My journey is my journey.
Janelle Monae
#25. I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally.
Janelle Monae
#26. I'm a believer that the more I'm giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be.
Janelle Monae
#27. Becoming a CoverGirl is truly an 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
#28. But the fact is that our communities have a wealth of resources - people, skills, and tangible items - which we could use to provide for ourselves.
Janelle Orsi
#29. And the way it felt?" I whisper, as if that might soften the blow of embarrassment I'm about to deal. "Is that how you were feeling - how you feel - about me?"
A breeze comes off the ocean, and my skin feels strangely empty and open as he gives an almost imperceptible nod.
Elizabeth Norris
#30. Reward theory. Some people just aren't worth your tears.
Janelle Carreon
#31. the cabana at his love's ranch. He phoned Shad to give and
Janelle Taylor
#32. Back then, Black churches were a small piece of peace. Church was a world where, even with its imperfections, the offer of equality and common humanity was the sustenance needed to make it through the rest of the week in a society that deemed them less than human.
Janelle Gray
#33. I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.
Janelle Monae
#34. I'm trying to compliment you," Barclay say. "Can't you just say thanks?
Elizabeth Norris
#35. Trip over love and you can get up, fall into love and you fall forever.j
Janelle Cooper
#37. I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.
Janelle Monae
#38. We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist, I want to open doors for young black girls.
Janelle Monae
#39. This time they would find the path to love and to acceptance. This time, she would know and understand the secrets of his heart as well as those of her own.
Janelle Taylor
#40. That's the damnedest story I think I've ever heard. It's so unbelievable, I actually believe it.
Janelle Denison
#41. It's funny how you can hear only a few cords from a song and it'll transport you back in time to a particular person or place.
Janelle Smith Toussant
#42. Everything that tried to stand between us doesn't matter.
We might have broken a little.
But now we're stronger in those broken places.
And we're going to face whatever comes next together.
Elizabeth Norris
#44. I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.
Janelle Monae
#45. You can't leave problems behind when they're inside your head."
-Lynx
Janelle Taylor
#46. I wanna scream and dream and throw a love parade / Is that okay?
Janelle Monae
#48. I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.
Janelle Monae
#49. I'll refer to my music in color, like 'This song needs to be bright red.'
Janelle Monae
#50. My message is that I want to reach the people - the people who work each and every day.
Janelle Monae
#51. 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
#54. I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.
Janelle Monae
#55. You suck at working with someone, I say, because it's true.
Elizabeth Norris
#56. It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default.
Janelle Monae
#57. 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
#58. I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.
Janelle Monae
#60. 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
#61. Maybe when you're young, you love people as much for their potential as for who they are right now. And if that's the case, what happens to love when time passes and that potential starts to shrivel and fade? Does love die with it?
Janelle Brown
#62. People don't ask Jay-Z to take his shirt off when he rhymes,
Janelle Monae
#63. It's infuriating that yesterday, my father had to pull all my younger cousins into a room and tell them to be more careful. He had to explain that in some cases, their brown skin convicts them before an offense is even committed.
Janelle Gray
#64. Don't get high off praises, and don't get too low on critiques.
Janelle Monae
#65. Even if it makes others comfortable, I will LOVE who I am
Janelle Monae
#66. We must think upon these things that threaten our love, which cause us to fear its loss. Fear is not good. We must conquer it and our mistrust. A
Janelle Taylor
#67. 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
#68. Beauty is about enhancing what you have. Let yourself shine through.
Janelle Monae
#69. It's a big universe. To stay in one tiny place is doing a disservice to yourself.
Janelle Monae
#70. 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
#71. You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.
Janelle Monae
#72. I was here.
I lived.
I mattered.
This is a good way to go.
Elizabeth Norris
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. Once you find what you like, it's like it worked yesterday, it works today, it'll work tomorrow.
Janelle Monae
#77. I know what I like; if you go to my closet, I have at least four of everything.
Janelle Monae
#78. I ain't never known you to fight over a woman, Cardone," Clint remarked.
"This one I will."
-Clint & Lynx
Janelle Taylor
#79. I grinned into the phone. "You like to think about a man making sweet love to my mouth? I think you have a problem, Ella bella." "If you don't know by now that I love you long time, Ollie, you are not very observant.
Janelle Stalder
#82. Get out of my room. It's late, and I'm not dressed for company." She knew she should put on her robe, but she didn't move. "I'm not company, and you're wearing more tonight than the last time I saw you. We need to talk, Callie."
-Calinda & Lynx
Janelle Taylor
#83. The saddest feeling is knowing you deserve freedom and still feeling caged.
Janelle Gray
#84. When he took her hand to lead her to the swing, she yanked it away and glared at him. He laughed and taunted, "I don't bite, Cal." "I think you do," she too quickly snapped, then flushed.
-Lynx & Calinda
Janelle Taylor
#85. I didn't used to be like this. I didn't believe in love and romance and swooning. My default setting was bitch
Elizabeth Norris
#86. 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
#87. Lynx, why are you staring at me like that?" she asked. He straightened and shrugged. "I was just thinking how close I came to losing you. Now that I have you, Callie, I can't imagine my life without you."
-Calinda & Lynx
Janelle Taylor
#88. Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. i didn't have to become perfect because I've learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.
Janelle Monae
#89. I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.
Janelle Monae
#90. Honestly, I don't believe in menswear. I focus on what pieces are most timeless, transcendent, match my lifestyle, remain remarkable, and command intriguing attention across the room at an art gallery.
Janelle Monae
#91. There's no fair swap for truth, son, not even with good intentions."
-Jones
Janelle Taylor
#92. I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll.'
Janelle Monae
#93. 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
#94. There are months when I'm on a plane every day!
Janelle Monae
#95. Facebook WANTS you to be an a-hole. And if you're not already, they will show you how.
Janelle Randazza
#96. 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
#97. I don't do a lot of collaborations that I don't believe in. Actually, I don't do any collaborations that I don't believe in.
Janelle Monae
#99. Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon.
Janelle Monae
#100. This is the second fucking time I've gotten shot when I was with you. I don't think we can be friends anymore.
Elizabeth Norris
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