Comfortable in my Natural State: Nicki Minaj

Quotes

"Keep in mind that I'm an artist, and I'm sensitive about my shit"~Erykah Badu

"Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too."
Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

"Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator. "~Erykah Badu

"Check your ingredients, before you overdose, on The Cool"~Lupe Fiasco

"He said he’d give her the world, She said she had her own"~Anonymous

"I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal
I cannot be comprehended except by my permission
I mean...I...can fly
like a bird in the sky..."
-Nikki Giovanni

"Beware the false motives of others
Be careful of those who pretend to be brothers [and sisters]
And you never suppose it's those who are closest to you
They say all the right things, to gain their position
Then use your kindness as their ammunition
to shoot you down in the name of ambition"~Lauryn Hill

"Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,"
-Alice Walker