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"50 Nicki Minaj Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 8 December 1982 | Musician | Rapper |

People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here.

Day Difficulties Every EveryDay
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So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

Come Fame Happiness Life
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I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect

Always Been Done Everybody
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I don't mind being called a weirdo.

Being Mind Weirdo
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But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.

Attention Being BeingMyself End
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I want people - especially young girls - to know that in life, nothing is going to be based on sex appeal. You've got to have something else to go with that.

Appeal Based Else Girl
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I don't want children cursing. I'm very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have to listen to clean versions of music. Even my music.
Brother Children Clean Cursing
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People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

About Always Been Experimenting
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I want to show little girls that the possibilities are endless. That's my goal - to not only do it for myself, but to show them I can do whatever I put my mind to.

Endless Girl Goal ICan
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I've constantly tried new things, even as a child, and have always been obsessed with pink. Now I'm just a little more ladylike and fearless. You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

Afraid Always Art Become
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I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.
Accent Average Black Creative
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I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

Act Auditioning Character Characters
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I don't need to Google myself.

Google Myself Need
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I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be.

Always Back Because Had
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I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.

Accents America Brother Bullying
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My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

Become Beginning Build Business
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I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

Absolutely College Domination Family
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I cannot hold a grudge against Mariah Carey. What people don't understand is that I've looked up to her for so many years.

Against Cannot Grudge Her
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My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It's a never-ending saga.
About Being Life Never-Ending
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My wigs are ever changing in height, width, color, size. They make me feel happy. Wearing them makes me feel like I can be a different person every day and that is kind of exciting.

Changing Color Day Different
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Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I am like, 'This is a high-top day' or 'This is a bob day,' but when I get my clothes on that's when I see.

Am Bob Clothes Day
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Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?
Maybe Normal Say Weird
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When I get up in the morning and put on a pink or a green wig, I see myself as a piece of animation. It lets me be the person I want to be, a person who's not embarrassed to have fun.

Animation Embarrassed Fun Get
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Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.

Before Business Female Get
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The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.

Act Animated Bitten Bug
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I'm just happy that 'Idol' producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I'm every single woman.

Able Because Every Feel
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My best and worst 'Idol' moments? I don't have a worst 'Idol' moment... I've been spectacular. Yes, I am going to toot my own horn. And then my best moment is every single moment. I'll toot it again!

Again Am Been Best
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I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write about 'Idol' all the time, and I guess I didn't expect that.

About American AmericanIdol Expect
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I don't put cash in my Louis Vuitton wallet. I have it thrown around my bag - jut a whole bunch of hundreds, maybe $5,000.
Around Bag Bunch Cash
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If I'm traveling, I'll pack socks in my bag - really cute furry ones.

Bag Cute Furry Pack
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Like to me, I did the 'Harajuku' stuff. I did the crazy stuff. And now I kind of want to tone that back, and it's not toning my personality back, it's just showing like I don't only have to do that.

Back Crazy Did Just
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Lavender is the new pink. I'll never stop wearing pink but I wanted to venture out.

Never NeverStop New Out
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I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.
Child Could Give GiveMe
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I hate formal stuff. I love looking like a doll and all that stuff and playing dress up, but when I'm home, sweat pants, t-shirt. When I'm in the studio, sweat pants, t-shirt.

Doll Dress Dress-Up Formal
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I've gotten tons of awards and I believe when it's my time to get a Grammy, I'll get a Grammy.

Awards Believe Get Gotten
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My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

Come Fame Happiness Life
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I know right now she has no idea who I am, but I'd like to collaborate with Enya one day. Of course I'd love to work with Jay-Z, maybe even Phil Collins. I love his voice.

Am Collaborate Collins Course
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You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

Afraid Art Become Exhilarating
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Your victory is right around the corner. Never give up.

Around Corner Give Never
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I vowed that I'd never allow any man to control me or to be an alcoholic or anything like that around me, because I don't want my children seeing that.

Allow Any Anything Around
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My rule is, whatever you were calling me four years ago is what you should be calling me now, because I don't like it when my family or close friends call me Nicki Minaj. To me I'm not Nicki Minaj when I'm with them.

Because Call Calling Close
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One of the first production deals I signed, the guy wanted my name to be Minaj and I fought him tooth and nail. But he convinced me. I've always hated it.

Always Convinced Deals First
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You have to know that as long as you love who you are - your morals, your values, that type of stuff - you're OK.

Know Long Love Morals
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I do have a few personalities. When people started making a big deal out of it, I started making names for these people.

Big BigDeal Deal Few
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If people are sitting in the barbershop talking about my butt, it's conversational. That's what people are gonna do.

About Butt Conversational Gonna
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Everyone knows I'm a lash girl by now. When I don't have my lashes, I feel naked.

Everyone Feel Girl IFeel
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I can't see myself without pink lipstick. I can go without it for a couple days, but if there was no more pink lipstick in the world, I'd be useless. Seriously.
Couple Days Go ICan
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I don't want a wig that looks like a wig; I want one that could pass for a weave.

Could Like Looks Pass
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You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.

Because Climb Competition Everybody
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I think sometimes the fashion world isn't even about clothes anymore; it's about this 'in' crowd, and I'm not into that.

About Anymore Clothes Crowd
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Nicki Minaj Quotes & Sayings