Top 72 Quotes & Sayings by Jidenna - Page 2

I think it's important to not just think about what you want but what's needed in the world.

I think one of the things that I picked up from Nigeria is the constant pressure to be excellent. Parents drill in this responsibility towards family, but also a responsibility toward making sure your family name is heralded.

I believe what Wondaland is doing is creating depth.

I feel like we haven't dealt with the ghosts of America's past, and the way to deal with it is to confront it, so every time people see me, I want them to be reminded and to confront that ghost.

California was special. It's a place where I learned how to be adventurous, both in style and fashion, but also in terms of the way I think.

I've always been dabbling in suits, but like a lot of people in the neighborhoods I grew up in, I had my snapback; I had my v-neck. I still got them in the closet. I got my J's, my Forces; it was standard.

I think hard-core capitalism tends to commercialize everything.

The affinity towards suits was a functional thing for me early on because I was thrifting at secondhand shops, and it was also initially a way of grieving - my father had passed, and he used to wear suits all the time.

I was born in Wisconsin, but I quickly moved to Nigeria as a toddler.

Does Martin Luther King really want his birthday commercialized?

There are always pluses and minus to commercialization. It broadcasts something to the masses. So that's the plus. The minus is it may lose some of its meaning if you dilute it.

My nickname is 'Chief' because my father was a chief in Nigeria.