“I don't want you to feel defeated, like, 'Oh boy, why do you do this t...” — Kelela Quote

“I don't want you to feel defeated, like, 'Oh boy, why do you do this to me?' We have too many of those songs.”

“Music in the U.K. is not racialised in the same way as it is in the U.S. In the U.S.. it's more rigid and conservative. And white people in the U.K. have more close proximity with black people and people of colour in general.”

“A lot of people of color in the music industry are still more interested in embracing things that are considered white canon, and looking radical. Like when people point to punk in the indie world: If you point to the history of punk as what you see as your legacy, that's more prized and praised.”

“We will bring justice to the savage terrorists known as Boko Haram. They will be defeated.”

“If Republicans are defeated in 2008, God help us all because Radical Islamic fascists will do anything by any means necessary to rid the world of the 'infidels': the enemy. In their eyes, that is America.”

“A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.”