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" I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back. "

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" I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time. "

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" I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes you do have to bank on yourself. You do have to believe in your ideas enough to really get out there and fight for it despite what people think of some young kids from the hood. "

" I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.' "

" I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting. "

" 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. "

" 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 want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion. "

" I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess. "

" I've never been the straight rapper that is going to stand in a cipher and battle all day. I started off battle rapping, but to me, making songs became more important than freestyles... I've met many rappers who can freestyle but can't make a record. "

" 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. "

" 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 legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have! "

" Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer. "

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

" I did Jay Leno with Mike the Situation, and he just - he lives, like, ten minutes from me in Jersey. He's like, 'If you ever get a flat, call me. I'll come fix your tire.' That's how we do. That's neighborly, you know? "

" I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic. "

" As a rapper, you sort of act in music videos and in the persona you adopt onstage. You kinda have to put yourself out there and be courageous even to be a rapper. So, to step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. "

" I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father. "

" 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. "

" Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not? "

" I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job. "

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

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

" I have my dad's shape. No booty. "

" I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do. "

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

" I feel like I've set the example for loving your body no matter what size it is, but I also can set the example for being healthy as well. "

" I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it. "