I believe that imagination inspires nations. Its something that I live by. – Janelle Monae
People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love We Are Young. Ive heard it play at weddings. Ive heard it in graduation parties. Its a big idea and big song. – Janelle Monae
Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think thats the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings. – Janelle Monae
I believe its time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them. – Janelle Monae
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him…. He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by