Janelle Monae People Quotations

My message is that I want to reach the people - the people who work each and every day.

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.

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

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.

People don't ask Jay-Z to take his shirt off when he rhymes,

I really just want to encourage and inspire people to use their freedom in a positive way and in a way that is inspiring to other people. I want to continue to pass down the seeds of change within the world. I think that it can start with just one person. Just like a rumor can get carried on, so can inspiration.