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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.

Meshell Ndegeocello

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Meshell Ndegeocello
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: August 29
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Your government has problems...my government has problems. I can't be a judge. All I can do is be an ambassador of love. I'm a musician, not a soldier, and if I'm invited to a place in order to play and bring love, I'll always accept the invitation.
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My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him.
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I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.
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God looks out for fools and babies.
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I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.
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Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.
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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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Sometimes people ask what it was like when I got to meet Mick Jagger, and I must admit that you just try and chill out and be your best self around anyone that you meet.
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I feel that musicians are in a fellowship, and that fellowship is a responsibility.
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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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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 joke that a person of color would never make a movie like “Midnight in Paris.” Nostalgia isn’t so enticing.
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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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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.
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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'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good time. Before they scoop you up on the street or you die.
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