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" Sometimes people won't be able to relate to you if you look like you're straight out of a full blown 'Vogue' magazine every time they see you. "

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" To me, being a black woman and being beautiful are not mutually exclusive. "

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" Sometimes, people have issues, and you just wish sometimes that it could be good. "

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" Even at my lowest point, when I've wanted to give up, I know that I have to believe in myself because I'm all that I have. "

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" My hair is always going to be purple; that's kind of my thing. It doesn't matter what length I make it, as long as it's purple. "

" I'm not going to blurt out my whole life on the Internet and just be all crazy emotional. I'm not that type of person, but it's in my music. "

" R&B was really prominent in the '90s, and we can all admit that it kind of fell off. But my generation is more in touch with our emotions - we're not afraid to show them. We're bringing that decade back. "

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" When I was working on 'Everyday Living,' I was going through a breakup. "

" I get nervous every single time. It doesn't matter if there're five people or five thousand. What I have noticed is that the more people there are, the less nervous I am. It's way harder to impress five people. "

" Everyone has their own style. It's unique; no one person's style is wrong. "

" For the most part, I'm very into sweatpants and cute tops from streetwear brands like Supreme and Palace for a '90s tomboy vibe. "

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" I just want to make great music. There's not a genre that I would categorize it as, but I want it to be true and authentic. "

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" One time I tried bangs, and people just weren't feeling it at all, but it's my hair. It's my unicorn mane, and it's definitely very important to me. It's also my body, and so I don't really care about other people's opinion of it. "

" You want to accomplish everything; there's no limits to what you want to do. You want to do movies. You want to do modeling. You want to be an entrepreneur - you want to enter every aspect of the entertainment business. "

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