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In honor of her birthday, heres a thread of Nicki Minaj quotes that get me through the day (funny, inspirational, fact spilling, or they simply just live rent free in my head) #HappyBirthdayNickiMinaj
1. "Bih I got beef with being BROKE!"
2. "Yall better sharpen your MF #2 pencils! Cause I STAY on point!"
3. "Im Nicki Maraj aka Nicki Minaj aka the one aka the President aka the boss aka write my own sht aka sit on your favorite rapper face!"
4. "All girls are Barbies we all wanna play dress up we all wanna put on lipstick and be cute and sexy but were also icons were moguls were all those things!"
5. "To haters, Im not your enemy, Im your hero!"
6. "So why isnt there a female rapper turned mogul? I mean MOGUL? Having an EMPIRE that lives on beyond your rap career! So I dont know why there isnt one yet I just know I want to be the first to do it and I will be!"
7. "When you start affecting lives, youre no longer doing it for you!! Youre doing it for them!! Or if youre still doing it for you then youre just a selfish person!"
8. "Roman is a crazy boy who lives in me and says the things that I dont want to say!"
9. "To me music is like spiritual!! So it moves you in like a way that you cannot teach in school!"
10. "When everything comes together, it feels like the world is my castle, this is my stage! It feels like Im in control!"
11. "The only way I can be beat is if you cheat!"
12. "I think thats what defines a true leader, a boss!! Its being able to bounce back!"
13. "The more you hate on me, the more Im going to become a superstar!"
14. "When Im assertive Im a bih!! When a man is assertive hes a boss!"
15. "So many things come at you every day and people are just hoping you give up and the key is to NEVER give up!"
16. "I am from an era that was HUNGRY!"
17. "The only thing that keeps my attention is change. I cant do an entire album with one kind of song. I cant talk about one thing only. I cant even wear the same hair every day!"
18. "All of the women being recognized tonight, I am so proud of you for showing me that this can be done and that this is possible and for showing so many girls that you can be your own boss and make music you want!"
19. "I care less about the acceptance, and more about me being the lyrical ill bih that I am!"
20. "The kid aint never predictable!"
21. "Sewerside is never the answer!"
22. "The kid play hard but the kid work even HARDERRRRRRR!"
23. "I just want people to stop!! Let people be them you know youre not God just embrace people and love them!"
24. "Freedom is accepting all of that knowing that you may never know who all these people are but as long as you know who you are thats freedom!"
25. "How a wack guy gonna write MY sht?"
26. "You guys just have to make sure that its really what you want to do and that youre not doing it for any other reason other than this is your passion and if its truly your passion then go for it but stay in school!"
27. "Stop feeling like you shouldnt speak your mind because someones going to call you a bih!! Speak your MF mind!"
28. "I know these are my real fans so basically anything I go out there and say tonight, they gonna ride with me they gonna hold me down!"
29. "I havent gotten to where I want to be yet!! I mean Ive accomplished plenty of things thank God!"
30. "You got bread?"
31. "Forget trying to change everyone else!! Just like..love and self search and..let people do them!"
32. "Find your voice and find your purpose before its too late!"
33. "Every human being needs to push themselves to the point of breaking sometimes!! If you never break you never know how much pressure you can take!!"
34. "Brokenness is okay as long as it can inspire people!"
35. "I feel like I owed it to my fans who had followed my career for a long time to strip another layer of myself and show them more outside of..people think Im just the wigs and I didnt want to be a caricature for the rest of my career!"
36. "Dont be a bum!! Go to school get your education. Ok? Promise?"
37. "Promise me that, youre not gonna ever let anyone tell you that youre not good enough!"
38. "Most people dont rap no more!! Most people aint even trying to spit. Everybodys getting by being fraudulent being half-azzed!"
39. "When you hear Nicki Minaj spit, Nicki Minaj wrote it!"
40. "Cause Barack needed a Michelle bih and Bill needed a Hillary!! You better pray to God you dont get stuck with a MF Melania!"
41. "I felt like whatever I do one day I wanted to be in charge of my business!"
42. "I never found you funny!! I never found you entertaining!! I never found you smart!! I just found you annoying!!"
43. "Music is so magical like it can take you anywhere!! Thats whats crazy about it!"
44. "Whenever I think of avant gardé I always think about the big daring stuff!! The stuff that doesnt conform!"
45. "Yo, you already know you already know bihes cant talk w grills in they mouth!"
(This was just funny and lives rent free in my head so thats why I included it lmao
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(This was just funny and lives rent free in my head so thats why I included it lmao
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46. "Things you could be doing as opposed to being on MY page bih cause I aint got nothing FOR you nothing azz bihes!"
47. "You bihes cant even SPELL Prague!"
48. "My role is reintroducing the female rapper to pop culture!"
