Controversial Sayings

I'm not a diva. I'm just a woman who sings.

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

I mean, how many niggas can say they made a million dollars and still kept it real?

It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up! magazine. Salt-n-Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine.

Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

I was interested in ideas—not merely in visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.

I have been with my flowers all day and I am tired.

If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.

I'm not a feminist. I'm a woman.

The Jew has never had a true art of his own, and has never been able to create one.

The artist must possess a special faculty for vision, not a mere talent for dexterity.

My art is truly a confession. A voluntary unveiling of my soul.

I never did like the Beatles. I didn't like their music. I thought it was corny.

I've always been very interested in magic, and I've always been very interested in the occult. I think it's a very powerful force.

I'm a spokesman for a generation that I don't even know anything about.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I just want to be a musician.

If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.

The Negro must rise up with an affirmation of his own Olympian manhood.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.