Words matter. These are the best Cheryl James Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m not really into the fashion thing.
Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It’s irritating. You’ve gotta rap from the diaphragm.
I didn’t want to get back into the whole industry. I left overworked, overwhelmed, and not having any control over my life. I was bulimic and needed to heal.
One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand.
There are a lot of good things that we can do. Maybe my example can help someone.
Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.
For the moment, I’m concentrating on my own stuff.
They keep telling me that my flow’s up to date, you know. I guess they thought I was gonna come back sounding… old.
There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.
We’re feminists. We’re doing something that only guys are expected to do and doin’ it right! At our concerts we’ll do one hard-core rap song and then do one where we’ll be real sexy.
I remember feeling all right with myself until age 13. Then, I was getting off the bus one day and this guy called me Miss Piggy. That was the first time I ever really felt like I wasn’t okay.
There are different kinds of people in the world.
For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.
‘None of Your Business.’ It’s the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret.
Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can’t go on making records just for your own hometown.
We’re not hard people.
I’ve changed my life in a lot of ways. I’m a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren’t what I care to express right now.
I don’t like the fact that there are so few women in rap.
