“Happiness is just a great equalizer. It's like water. You pour happiness liberally and all sorts of great things are going to happen.” HappensWaterGreat ThingsEqualizer Author:June Millington
“If you can give people happiness, you're in their hearts. Now you can just start having conversations with people that you would not have had under other circumstances.” PeopleIfsGivingHeartCircumstancesConversation Author:June Millington
“I have this theory that people are actually really hungry for sonic space and understanding words, and I think that people are ready to look back and actually appreciate some of what came before. And then you really do have the entire movement that I'm just going to call feminist, because I am a feminist. I think the education of young girls and women about what came before has started and I think that the knowledge of Fanny is part of that.” PeopleThinkingLooksYoungGirlUnderstandingSpaceMovementReadyTheoryAppreciateFeministHungry Author:June Millington
“I didn't want to do an electro-class album or complex rap album. I wanted to do something that was kind of like a political statement, but also club jams. I wanted it to be dancy, but intelligent at the same time.” WantKindWantedPoliticalClassIntelligentComplexesAlbumsClubsRapStatementsJam Author:Le1f
“I'm the only person in my family who can't sing. My grandmother was an opera singer and all of her kids were in church five days a week - or between church and vocal lessons at Carnegie Hall. But my mom had her first studio experience recording on my album. She's used to having to fill the room, so she had to adjust to the microphone and not sing opera.” FirstsPersonsKidsUsedChurchRoomsFiveWeekMomLessonsMy FamilyAlbumsStudiosMy MomSingersGrandmotherHallsOperaMy GrandmotherVocalMicrophonesCarnegieOpera SingersCarnegie Hall Author:Le1f
“I don't know why it's anyone's business! People do what they need to do. I did it, and it was nowhere near as traumatic as being raped. I was so numb for so long that sex work for me was not a big deal.” PeopleKnowsNeedsLongBigsSexDealsBig DealNumbSex Work Author:Margaret Cho
“I don't like people telling other people what to do. Sex work for a lot of women is really important, especially in countries where women don't have a lot of power. Here we can have at least some form ... of making money.” PeopleImportantCountryFormSexMaking MoneySex Work Author:Margaret Cho
“Where do people get off telling people what to do? It's their bodies. If you legalized sex work and legally protected the sex workers, you wouldn't see anything like human trafficking. All of that would be obliterated.” PeopleIfsHumansBodyWould BeSexWorkersProtectedHuman TraffickingTraffickingSex Work Author:Margaret Cho
“In all these cases, part of the reasons for failure perhaps was not analyzing and assessing the true nature of the crisis, the resources that would be required, and exaggerated expectation of what the U.N. troops can do.” ReasonWould BeCan DoCasesExpectationsResourcesCrisisTroopsTrue NatureExaggeratedAnalyzingAssessing Author:Kofi Annan
“You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as humanity, to help in these dangerous situations.” PeopleHumansHelpingMovingHumanityCommunitySituationSawsDangerousTraumaDangerous Situations Author:Kofi Annan