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I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.
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In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.
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I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.
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My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me.
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It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.
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By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.
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I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.
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It's OK showing yourself some love.
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I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my tough girl attitude was like, 'I'm not having it.'
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I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.
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'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
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When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.
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As long as I live, I know I'll have feelings. And that's what I'm passionate about.
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Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.
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As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday.
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I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.
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Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.
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If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.
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When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply.
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I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.
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When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.
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Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you; don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.
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When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.
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Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do.
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