74 Quotes by Meshell NdegeOcello

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

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.

Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun.

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.