If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.

For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself

If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me; they were always scared that somebody was going to take me.