Hip-Hop started out in the heart.
We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
I don’t need anybody to market or promote me. If people don’t want to hear this music, then it’s not for them. You cannot please everybody.
God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.
From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
Consequence is no coincidence.
There are a lot of young black girls who I meet in my travels who don’t have a lot of self-esteem. So if I communicate to them that they’re beautiful, no white person should find fault in that. It doesn’t mean that young white girls aren’t beautiful, because they are just as beautiful.
We call ourselves creators and we just copy.
You don’t know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It’s all in the practice.
Hip-Hop isn’t just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can’t just call Hip-Hop a trend!
This life is a process of learning.
The only way to know is to Live, Learn, and Grow.
I had an economic system imposed on me.
I’m trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and caring friend, a responsible person. And every day is another opportunity for me to be successful at that.
I don’t buy into that whole concept of success that I have this mountain with this moat around it and then I get into my big car and drive to my destination and never see people. That’s not my concept of success.
What was freely given to me, I freely give.
Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.
Tell me who I’ve got to be, to get some reciprocity.
Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ass because you think it’s a trend.
You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.