Harlem is a stage. It's like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk and talk.

I'm ghetto chic, I'm where the hood and high fashion meet

I am the princess of G.O.O.D. Music, the first lady of G.O.O.D. Music, the baby of G.O.O.D. Music. I'm kinda the spoiled brat right now. I could get whatever I want.

I always want to work with people that I can grow with.

I'm not really a Facebook fan because I don't know how to use it! It's so complicated!

When I do appearances and stuff and I just wanna see the new pictures, I Google myself.

I have a right to voice my opinion, but you know - when you can't really make choices, it really don't matter.

Kids can't look up to girls who are trying to be growner than they are.

I am really heavy into songwriting.

Working with Omarion is pretty amazing. That's like my brother. He's really cool.

To actually be a part of a brand that you look up to, and a legendary one at that, is super dope.

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia." "And I've been wanting to kick you in the shin for days.

The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

We're being attacked, Britain is being attacked, our allies are being attacked because we've installed and backed and implemented a set of policies in the Middle East for the last years or more.

They don't know you're secretly a badass?

ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light

Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

My mother's always looking for answers. She's always searching for new information. I think she has a thirst for hunger that very few possess innately.