"I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally."

-- Janelle Monae

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Feels Quotes

“I work out sort of moderately.”
“Wait," I say. "I think you're mistaken. Saying there is no dream is the same as saying everything is a dream. Isn't it? Everyone's a dreamer? Extraordinary things happen all the time even when we're awake. What I meant to suggest to you, if indeed that was me in your dream doing the suggesting, is that there is only one world. This one. The dream is real. The ordinary is the wonderful. The wonderful is the ordinary.”

Source : Samantha Hunt (2009). “The Invention of Everything Else”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.”
“The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalized.”
“Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.”
“If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.”
“I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.”
“I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor, and I think you can find Negro leaders in the State who will attest to this fact”

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