Top 55 Princess Nokia Quotes

I’m from Harlem.

Growing up in the ’90s was the coolest thing to me.

I’m a Puerto Rican woman whose family has roots in Regla de Ocha, also known as Santeria.

I like a lot of older rock ‘n’ roll artists, like legends like Freddie Mercury and David Bowie. They really influenced me to be very, very androgynous and very commanding, and very very – I wouldn’t say odd, but I would say eccentric.

I model a lot and I’m very fortunate and blessed to be able to do as many partnerships I do for an underground musician such as myself.

I’m not aloof at all.

I literally have my hand in every aspect of the art world that you could imagine. That’s what I’ve always done.

I like Marvel because characters look like me and women don’t have roles that make them look too sexual.

Oh, I never fit in anywhere. I’m a loner. I don’t even have many friends.

I was just a queer theater kid from New York City.

I’m not a docile, complacent person when it comes to racial aggressions.

I used to go onstage with no makeup on. And then I realised I was looking a little crazy and I had to grow up a bit and look more presentable as a woman.

I’ve had a lot of characters and personalities, accents and different aspects from all the walks of my life.

Black people created punk – the band Death was way before The Ramones. Same with Bad Brains. If you think about it, the wool has been pulled over our eyes.

I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I’m free to be myself.

I’ve got a lot of male energy.

My place in New York is very authentic, very old New York. I love old New York.

The music that I will continue to make will certainly draw upon those experiences of being a loner, of being an emo goth kid, of being a New York City aficionado, of being a witch, a feminist, a brown radical woman.

Every year, I assign myself to make a beautiful art piece which is my musical project for the year.

I like to honor my West African and Taino ancestry, I consider it sacred and divine.

It’s apparent that I’m really eccentric and lively.

I had been introduced to rapping in a way where women and people did it, it was structured. It had this very very political structure to it and if you didn’t follow the structure, you weren’t considered validated or real and that just gave me anxiety.

I don’t have a make-up artist and I don’t need a stylist.

I’m really into the fact that I could walk into any room and snatch any man in there like it’s nothing.

Men should understand that women are creatures of nature, and that they are to be respected as nature, and that they are interchangeable and complex like nature.

I’m 100 percent in control of my artistry, music, and finances.

I’ve written all of my songs, I directed all my videos. Every part of what I’ve done for music, from the visuals to the business, I did it. And I’m really proud of that.

Black people have always loved the blues – they basically created the blues.

People look down on teen moms and young mothers when they are the most gracious and significant women on this Earth. They sacrifice their freedom and their lives to give life.

All the greatest comedians use comedy and humor to release pain and sadness, and I think that instead of wanting to live within my pain, or live within my sadness, I try to be funny and look at things with a funny view.

I actually didn’t own any North Face until I was 18 and the first one I had was a gorgeous Blue Extreme and I loved it.

It took me a long time to get to where I am, but I am here and it is everywhere I want to be. A place where both my artistic merit and hard work meet. A day where I can say, ‘Yeah, I’m a musician. A good one.’

I have confidence and je ne sais quoi. That is unmistakable.

I’ve been investing in and funding myself since day one.

There are many types of education: formal education, street education, personal education, experiential education, and I’ve found that I’ve had different partners who have a lot of wonderful intellect and education from all different types of sources.

Jordans? No. I thought mohawks, leather jackets, studs, piercings, colored hair, leopard print, platforms, all the bondage wear, I thought that was the coolest thing.

I’m not trendy and I’m not popular.

I believe in God, Nature, Magic, and the spiritual healing of all holistic properties.

My experience is that white kids love hip-hop, and brown and black kids love rock music. That shows that brown kids – they carry emotion, they carry pain, they carry oppression and strife.

I’d been suffering all of my life. I think comedians and artists, we do that. We know how to be the life of the party and enjoy exuberance outside of pain.

My parents were artists, bohemian, hanging out a lot.

Everything really came together on ‘1992.’ That isn’t to dismiss my earlier works – they were great – but when I focused myself on hip-hop everything just clicked.

When I started out rapping, I became very frightened by the idea that people were trying to pigeonhole me. That’s usually what happens to most female rappers. They fit in a box and there’s a prototype or person they’re compared to.

I’m a big believer in letting your freak flag fly.

I started modeling before ‘1992,’ and I had already done Calvin Klein and Target and Gap and Diesel, Reebok, so I had been modeling for a little bit.

Growing up, I loved Boy George, George Michael, Annie Lennox, Queen, Freddie Mercury, Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross.

Everybody wants to act like I ain’t a big deal when I am. I’m one of the most successful, relevant and influential rappers of my generation.

I truly have a lot of faith in the universe even when I’m down, I’m always good.

I prefer my partner to have profound, deep intellect, a profound education, but where their education comes from is no preference of my own.

I remember at school one day there was a vocabulary list on the chalkboard, and the word ‘nonconformist’ was on there, and it said, ‘Someone that doesn’t appeal to society, someone who doesn’t fit in.’ We had this whole conversation about it, and I realized it cohered to the punk-rock world that I was into.

I don’t have much in life but my work is what makes me alive.

I always wanted to make rock music as well or as an element of what I do.

The street-wear and the very androgynous tomboyish girl, that’s just not this new persona I’m introducing… it’s me 24/7.

Music is a beauty pageant. When I go put myself out there, I’m going to compete.

I think that the power of reinvention is very important.