Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.
There are things you stand up for because it's right.
I never give up. Doesn't matter what the score is.
Accept losing but never give up the hope of winning
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.
From the minute I wake up until I go to bed I think about food.
If your family loves you, you're fine. What you can't grow up without is love.
When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.
I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.
I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.
When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.
If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'
I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.
I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
Los Angeles is my home - I have my wife and two daughters growing up there.
Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.
I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.
No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'
My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.
