When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.

I'm a bombshell, so I'm going to do me. If I want to go platinum, I'm going platinum.

I'm born to do music. I'm born to act. I'm born to dance and all of these things, and I will be respected.

In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage.

I like the OMG Girlz. They're real and they're friends.

MC Lyte definitely embraces me. Jada Pinkett Smith embraces me. Those are two people that I can call and get advice. Those are two people that will call me to see what I'm doing.

Responsibility is the thing people dread the most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

Money makes the man.

I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors.

I think most beauty tips that work and last are kind of old.

Men scream and go crazy in the gym. I'm a silent workout partner, but when my adrenaline gets up, I talk trash.

The much-maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve. [...] Profits and prices are the street signs of the economy. Only fools flout them.

I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite

I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.