"Ledisi means to come here, to bring forth. Itâ€™s a Nigerian word and itâ€™s from the Yorubu culture, I believe, and my parents named me, my dad and my mom, and really my dad, and I had no choice in that. Thatâ€™s my real name and thatâ€™s what it means."

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Source : Jazz Monthly Interview, www.jazzmonthly.com.

Ledisi

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“To embrace a woman is to embrace a sack of manure...”
“I'm interested in the ongoing war between the individual and community. That inner dissent against whatever group is surrounding you. No one wants to cede their selfhood to a group, right? And yet no one can exactly live outside the group, either. Even the most obstinate survivalist probably lives in some telepathic communion with all the other obstinate survivalists out there in the woods.”

Source : "Jon Raymond’s Californian Epic". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2017.
“I get to hang out with Billy Bob Thornton at his house. We hang out over there every time we're in L.A., because he doesn't go out. We'll hang and he'll play us some of his tunes. It's pretty awesome.”
“America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!”

Source : The Melting-Pot act 1 (1908). This passage popularized the term melting pot in the sense of an amalgamation of peoples (the jstor database shows that an earlier usage with this meaning occurs in the American Journal of Sociology, July 1906, and a reference to public education as a "melting-pot" for immigrants appears in the Los Angeles Times, 28 June 1891). See Baudouin 1; Jimmy Carter 3; Crevecoeur 1; Ellison 2; Hayward 1; Jesse Jackson 1
“Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.”

Source : "Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.
“I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb.”
“Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.”
“Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately and yell at the people nestling deep in the snug softness, stuffing themselves with delicious food and drink. 'Ladies and Gentlemen,' they yell, 'we are floating in space!' But none of the people down there care”

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