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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.
Meshell Ndegeocello
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Meshell Ndegeocello
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: August 29
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Michelle Lynn Johnson
Meshell Suhaila Bashir-Shakur
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My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.
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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.
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I dabble in the jazz world, which is male-dominated. If you had two women playing together, it became a shtick. It becomes a girl group, and it has to be something cutesy. That's hard to contend with.
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I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.
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Our leaders and Osama Bin Laden all claim to do the right thing in the name of God. I question that. I wonder if that God is worth the life of another human-being.
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Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”
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