“You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.”

As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.

I don’t care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.

You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.

I already enjoy cooking. I like different flavors and putting different things together and really like taking normal recipes to a higher level.

I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.

I’m not allowed to get a big head, I’ve still got to do the simple things in life.

Let your inner queen’s voice come through loud and clear. Be strong, be authentic, be you, and you’ll do her proud.

I don’t have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, ‘You’re going to be fine. It ain’t that serious!’

To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that went into becoming good at it, because I hadn’t had any training.

I often find it’s just the confidence that makes you sexy, not what your body looks like. It’s how you feel about yourself that makes you sexy.

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

instinct leads me to another flow.

Anyone who knows me knows that I’m way more of a joker than I am a serious person.

So often, you don’t get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you’re on set.

My look and my character come from my experiences as a child. I wasn’t allowed to have girl toys, and I grew up poor. I also had a rough relationship with my stepdad.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

I would like to see every woman know how to handle guns as naturally as they know how to handle babies.

When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.

You know, I’ve held women and babies and jewels and money, but nothing will ever feel as good as holding that Cup.

I want to give more time to my children, my family, to my health.

To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.