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" I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid - I would talk to God, talk to the sky. "

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" If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect. "

" I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do? "

" I never pictured myself as just a rapper; I always wanted to act and do whatever else I could do. I always felt like I could do a lot of different things. "

" We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt. "

" Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid. "

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

" I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields. "

" Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades. "

" I love Ralph Lauren, just as a designer. I still think he could make some better sizes with his clothes, but I like the idea of his classic American style. "

" Always follow your own path. "

" I want to have and adopt. I always have; ever since I was 18, I wanted a baby, and I wanted to have and adopt because there are a lot of kids. I want to adopt an American baby though, you know what I mean, no offense. Just because there are so many kids here that need our help. "

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

" 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. "

" I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically. "

" To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco. "

" I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant. "

" Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork! "

" I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun. "

" My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful. "

" Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up. "

" When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract. "

" I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times. "

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" I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta... A refrigerator full of water and Gatorade? Honey, that's just not gonna happen. "

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

" I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid. "

" To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps. "

" I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that. "

" My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things. "