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"I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing."
"I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think."
"If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction."
"I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like Poor Righteous Teachers and all these people who were spitting a lot of knowledge, a lot of history, questioning a lot of societal barriers was starting to be super popular."
"I think Muslims in particular are facing similar obstacles African Americans did, historically."
"I deal with stress in two ways because there are two kinds of stress. There's stress that you can take care of and there's stress that you can't. The first one, I take care of it as fast as possible, because putting it off always makes it worse. Things that I can't fix? I think about the fact that I can't fix them. I think about why I can't fix them and I come to terms with the fact that this is a problem that I'm not going to overcome and that the world is not a wish granting factory."
"Think of people as people, not problems that need to be solved."
"I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love."
"You can't climb uphill by thinking downhill thoughts."
"You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words."
"We have to steer our true life’s course. Whatever your calling is in life! The whole purpose of being here is to figure out what that is as soon as possible, so you go about the business of being on track, of not being owned by what your mother said, what society said, whatever people think a woman is supposed to be when you can exceed other people’s expectations and be defined by your own!"
"I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself."
"There’s a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of being happy. Your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough."
"[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling] stories [and] I make the mistake of thinking that everyone has the same enthusiasm!"
"To be able to shut off your emotions drastically, I think that the only way you can do that is if you have some of sociopathic qualities."
"If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't."
"The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control."
"Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time."
"Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it."
"Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking."
