There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.

Anyone's happier when they're not being verbally abused all day long.

No one can break me down. I know my worth and its a beautiful thing.

Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night.

First things first, I'm da realest.

Pledge allegiance to the struggle.

Once you go great, you never go good..You never go back, even if you could.

I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

Women in music have the bigger balls anyhow we endure much more harassment and critic.

Or maybe I am justoutside enough, being the footstool observing from the corner, that I have a view of reality.

There is no need for comparison. Be happy with yourself and find satisfaction in your work.

I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.

Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

Of what import are brief, nameless lives . . . to Galactus?

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

This is white man's integration, an integration based on exploitative values

All is fair in love, war and tax evasion.