I do consider myself part of black history.

I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.

No one compares to you. Just remember that. There's no one out there - there's only one of you, and that's it. And whatever you believe about you that's great, no one else has it. And I can't look like you, there's no way I can slip into your body and be you, and you can't slip into my body and be me. This is all we're gonna get.

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.