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I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.

Meshell Ndegeocello

I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

Meshell Ndegeocello

I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like 'Midnight in Paris.' Nostalgia isn't so enticing.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

Meshell Ndegeocello

My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.

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I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.

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There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

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Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.'

Meshell Ndegeocello

You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.

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I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

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I'm a true believer that unless you're Prince or Stevie Wonder - and even Prince is showing that he needs help - not everybody can produce themselves. I'm definitely not that person.

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Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

Meshell Ndegeocello

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

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Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun.

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God looks out for fools and babies.

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