#w

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#after #aids #been #check #children

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#felt #grew #high #high school #i

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#change #i #lamp #like #new

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#anywhere #become #certainly #down #end

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#gandhi #i #john #john lennon #king

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#ambitious #gross #i #i am #monstrosity

My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#brought #did #either #father #his

People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#grew #hear #i #influence #like

Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#charles #find #him #his #i

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration. ↗

— Serena Williams

#down #gun #keep #playing #shooting