“I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.”

Me, myself and I. That’s all I got in the end.

I embrace mistakes, they make you who you are.

Baby it’s you. You’re the one I love. You’re the one I need. You’re the only one I see.

Embrace your past, but live for now.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

I used to want you so bad, I’m so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had!

Perfection is a disease of a nation.

Men and women balance each other out, and we have to get to a point where we are comfortable with appreciating each other.

There are times i hate you cause i cant erase the times you hurt me and put tears on my face.

I like to walk around with bare feet and I don’t like to comb my hair.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

Acting is easier and smoother than singing – it’s less drama.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

It’s easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own.

I think it’s important for women to be around other women and learn from each other.

I fell in love with music by listening to R&B, & it’s the core of who I am.

In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

People associate feminism with hate – with man hate – and that’s really negative.

Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive

If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.

Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That’s it, that simple.

I’m a huge supporter of women. What I’m not a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women’s movement, especially walking behind it.

Feminism is not here to dictate to you.