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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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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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