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" R&B needs to see a new light. It doesn't have to be pigeonholed. "

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" I don't really feel there's rules in my everyday wear. I kind of do whatever the hell I want to do. "

" It doesn't bother me when I'm labeled, but it's so... limiting. It's so boxy. "

" When I get inspired, I give out free music. If you look at my track record from the beginning, that's always what I've done. I've never changed. "

" I'm not a very open person. "

" I've had two platinum albums. I have worked with thousands of people. But the most rewarding feeling is to see people on Twitter say, 'Do you see what Dawn and them are doing? They are number one.' It's the most rewarding feeling because of all the tears, all the bad stuff, and the people that said I couldn't do it. "

" Fashion is my lover on the side, but I am married to music. "

" I can be a little messy and wild and carefree with my creativity as a solo artist. In a group, there's a certain structure, and everyone has a part to play, and being a solo artist, I can do as I please. "

" I couldn't do a record without knowing I'll translate it into something visual. "

" There is a thing about women that needs to be understood. We don't sit well with being put in a certain place. "

" My dad was a teacher. He has a Masters in music. He taught elementary school, and he played gigs his whole life, and we lived good. "

" You don't need validation from other people. You've gotta find it within yourself and sit in it and roll with it. "

" Instagram is just something I like to do. I feel it's the best way to portray who you are. "

" You have to put time into the art to do it, and you have to know that what you'll get out of it is not a financial or a fame thing. It'll just be the pleasure of being an artist. And I'm cool with that. "

" I had always had an affinity for series in literature, and I thought it would be really cool to incorporate what I loved about books into the story of music, to pile it together. "

" Hair pieces and head dresses have always been something that's been part of my culture. "

" I got in the audition line called 'Making the Band' because I wanted to be in a band. If I didn't, I would have done 'American Idol.' "

" Anything that creates fear, I want to conquer it. "

" Be exactly who you are. You can fit in any space you see yourself in. Be fearless. "

" Everyone who knows Puff knows Puff rolls with himself. His hustle is money. That's what he does. "

" I lived in the library with my grandmother as a child. I still love the smell of books; the library card is still my friend. "

" I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came from that. "

" The problem with Danity Kane is everybody wanted to play everybody's role, and when you're in a group like that, that can't survive. "

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" I'm okay with being the oddball. "

" The black geeks of the world, we feel like we don't have a home. "

" When I was 4, I had a schedule. I was playing softball. My brother was playing football. My parents were teachers, and they'd owned businesses. We like to work hard. Work and then books. Books and then work. We just knew that we had to excel. It sounds militant, but trust me, it was fun. "

" 'The Red Era' is for everybody. Every gay, every fluid, every black, every white. "

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" You don't know how far you can go until you push it. "