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Janelle Monae

"There are some groups that for years and years have not gotten the rights that the majority of human beings have, and it's important to continue to draw these parallels so that when we think about our future we can change some of the lives of people who love differently than we do, look different than we do, who come from a different class. It's all about bringing awareness to how important it is to be accepting of people, and there will be oppression if one group thinks they're more important or superior."

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Janelle Monae

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“being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us.”
“The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming shadows and no gaunt silhouettes. It was invincibly cheerful, a toyland of white and pastel houses whose bright, uncurtained windows winked blandly through a dappling of green and yellow leaves â€¦ A man running down these streets in desperate grief was indecently out of place.”
“Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.”
“The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.”
“Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the beginning and if we do not kill, by various means of a perverse art, the human offspring, born according to the designs of divine providence; for these women who, if order to hide their immorality, use abortive drugs which expel the child completely dead, abort at the same time their own human feelings.”

Source : "Paedagogus 2". Book by Clement of Alexandria, (circa 210).
“It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!”
“You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.”
“Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.”

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