I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.

It was a very vulnerable time going from being insecure about my body and who I am to becoming comfortable with me. I had to tune out what the hell everybody else had to say about who I was. When I was able to do that, I felt free.

If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.

Roxanne Shanté was kind of the first female to really come out and get respected by dudes, because she went at dudes real hard and battled them and freestyled a lot, and really came off the head a lot.

I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.

Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics - it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.