117 Significant Nicki Minaj Quotes

‘“Life is a prize, but to live doesn’t mean you’re alive.” ‘

‘“Call me cursed or just call me blessed. If you can’t handle my worst you ain’t getting my best.”’

‘“You have to know that as long as you love who you are—your morals, your values, that type of stuff, you’re okay.”’

‘“I don’t promote giving up. I promote fighting and winning.”’

‘“Good advice I always hated but looking back it made me greater.”’

‘“I ain’t never need a man to take care of me.”’

‘“People will love and support you when it’s beneficial.”’

‘You don’t have to feel the need to put somebody down to make yourself feel better.”’

‘“You could be the king, but watch the queen conquer.”’

‘“Defend my honor. Protect my pride.”’

‘“I put God first and do not allow other things to cloud my vision.”’

‘“Don’t chase the boys. Don’t depend on anybody. Do your thing.”’

‘“Mind over matter, I don’t mind and you don’t matter.”’

‘“When I win and when I lose, I take ownership of it, because I really am in charge of what I do.”’

‘“So, my happiness doesn’t come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.”’

‘“Don’t stay watching happiness, make it.”’

‘“Take me or leave me I’ll never be perfect. Believe me, I’m worth it.”’

‘“I will not let anyone scare me out of my full potential.”’

‘“If you don’t take control of your career, guess what? You’ll be stuck in the sunset watching the sunrise.”’

‘“True confidence leaves no room for jealousy. When you know you are great, you have no need to hate.”’

‘“Stay in school. Don’t ever be lazy, don’t you ever complain about hard work. Work hard, it pays off.”’

‘“I want to show little girls that the possibilities are endless. That’s my goal, to not only do it for myself but to show them I can do whatever I put my mind to.”’

‘“Sometimes you don’t realize how far you’ve gotten until you look around at the people who are still trailing behind you.”’

‘“Always tell someone how you feel because opportunities are lost in the blink of an eye, but regrets can last for a lifetime.”’

‘“I get what I desire, it’s my empire.”’

‘“Life is a movie, but there will never be a sequel.”’

‘“If I’m fake I ain’t notice, ‘cause my money ain’t.”’

‘“You gotta be a beast, that’s the only way they’ll respect you.”’

‘“I truly believe my haters are my motivators.”’

‘“Let me make this clear, I’m not difficult, I’m just ’bout my business.”’

‘“You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don’t make moves and you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition.”’

‘“If I wasn’t winning you wouldn’t care.”’

‘“There’s nothing more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears.”’

‘“You’re not gonna tell me who I am. I’m gonna tell you who I am.”’

‘“I always feel it’s important for me to show females that they can be in charge of their own situation.”’

‘“My advice to women in general—even if you’re doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want and don’t allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.”’,

‘“I just want women to always feel in control. Because we’re capable, we’re so capable.”’,

‘“When I get up in the morning and put on a pink or a green wig, I see myself as a piece of animation. It lets me be the person I want to be, a person who’s not embarrassed to have fun.”’,

‘“We all have insecurities, but you have to know you’re beautiful.”’,

‘“Refuse to lose, refuse to be defeated, refuse to have regrets.”’,

‘“I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive. I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise, to fly.”’,

‘“Your victory is right around the corner. Never give up.”’,

‘“Sometimes you gotta be beauty and a beast.”’,

‘“Keep trying, as if it’s your first day on the job. That’s how I think of it. When it comes to creating, I always feel like, wait a minute, I can’t take any shortcuts.”’

‘ “I live and I learn but I wait my turn. I’m always on the run, got weight to burn.” ‘

‘“Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty.”’

‘“You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It’s exhilarating.” ‘

‘“I stand for girls wanting to be sexy and dance but also having a strong sense of themselves. If you got a big ol’ butt? Shake it! Who cares? That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be graduating from college.”’

‘“I vowed that I’d never allow any man to control me or to be an alcoholic or anything like that around me because I don’t want my children seeing that.”’

‘“I’m a multidimensional woman, like all women are. The difference is I have the balls to take chances.”’

‘“Please, you can never compare to me, all these b*tch*s are scared of me. I am who they couldn’t even dare to be.”’

‘“You can hate me, but why knock my hustle? I’ma be the queen, no matter how they shuffle.”’

‘“I think of myself as a woman who wants other women to be bosses and to be strong and to be go-getters.”’

‘ “When a good girl’s gone, she’s gone forever.”’

‘“I think women are much stronger than men in society. We take more risks than they do in general.”’,

‘“I’ve always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind—because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn’t be. I thought, ‘If I’m successful, I can change her life.’”’

‘“Women should be allowed to be as hardcore and sexual as we want because men do it all the time.”’

‘“When you’re a girl you have to be everything. You have to be dope at what you do but you have to be super-sweet. And you have to be sexy, and you have to be this and you have to be that, and you have to be nice. It’s like, I can’t be all those things at once. I’m a human being.”’

‘“I am not a word, I am not a line, I am not a girl that can ever be defined.”’

‘ “I don’t mind being called a weirdo. There are a lot of people in hip-hop who are probably never going to get what I do. But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.”’

‘“In the history of the hip hop world. There has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.”’

‘“I don’t have to do things just to please people. It’s okay to do what I love because what I love, my fans love. And they’re really the only ones that should matter.”’

‘ “Only one chance, one bullet in the gun. This is my life and I only got one, yeah. The safety’s off and I put on her. Oh stick ‘em up, stick ‘em up. Ready to shoot.”’

‘“Everything I’ve been through could’ve killed me. That’s why it really ain’t nothing you could tell me.”’

‘ “My rule is, whatever you were calling me four years ago is what you should be calling me now because I don’t like it when my family or close friends call me Nicki Minaj. To me, I’m not Nicki Minaj when I’m with them.”’

‘“I don’t want to let anybody down, I’ve always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect. I do feel it when people hold me to high expectations.”’

‘“Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.”’

‘“My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It’s a never-ending saga.”’

‘ “I feel like my entire career and life, I’ve been judged by people who did not really know me. I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me because there was such little to go on out there.”’

‘“I do not see myself as a female rapper anymore. I see myself as a rapper.”’

‘“I want to build my empire. In my field, I have always seen men do it. From Diddy to Dr. Dre to Jay Z. Now it’s a woman’s turn.”’

‘“If you don’t have critics, you probably don’t have success either.”’

‘“All these haters are mad because I’m so established.”’

‘“People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn’t kill myself and now, thank God, I’m here.”’

‘“I’mma just do me, when it feels right.”’

‘“Now it’s me and my time, it’s just me in my prime.”’

‘“I want people—especially young girls—to know that in life, nothing is going to be based on sex appeal. You’ve got to have something else to go with that.” ‘

‘“Greatness is what we are on the brink of.”’

‘ “I’m thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination in terms of providing for my family is absolutely my goal.”’

‘“I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.”’

‘“I’m very proud of my team, and the way they stood behind me and I’m very happy to show my female fans in that audience and even my gay fans in that audience.”’

‘“But had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.”’,
‘ “He toss my salad like his name Romaine.”’

‘“Maybe your weird is my normal. Who’s to say?”’

‘“Runnin’ this game for five years, guess that’s why my feet hurt.” ‘

‘“I can’t see myself without pink lipstick. I can go without it for a couple days, but if there was no more pink lipstick in the world, I’d be useless. Seriously.”’

‘ “Like, I mean I don’t even know why you girls bother at this point. Like, give it up. It’s me. I win and you lose.”’

‘“I feel like people always wanna define me and I don’t wanna be defined.”’

‘“It’s not hard to get your way when it’s your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they’re not around. I don’t really like the sound of that, ’cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I’m just very black and white when it comes to my business. There’s really no gray area.”’

‘“No one will ever accept anything. I think the goal is to not want anyone’s acceptance.”’

‘“You could never understand why I grind like I do.”’

‘“I’m throwing shade like it’s sunny.”’

‘”No, I’m not lucky, I’m blessed.”‘

‘“Bad as I wanna be. She ain’t bad, she a sad little wannabe.”’

‘ “Some people have to put in the work. Others get to cut corners. We see it but don’t say it. Welcome to the real world.”’

‘ “I don’t agree that everyone should agree with everyone’s lifestyle. I think that some people aren’t going to agree, but I think that when you’re mean and when you ridicule people it’s a sign of your own insecurities.”’

‘ “My tears have dried and I know that no weapon formed against me will prosper.”

‘“The people that are inclined to hate, are also inclined to be losers.”’

‘“I hope you lay down in your sleep and you choke on every lie you told.”’

‘“You couldn’t get a fan if it was hanging from the ceiling.”’

‘“I do have a few personalities. When people started making a big deal out of it, I started making names for these people.”’

‘“I’m in my own lane, you ain’t in my category.”’

‘“You like me, you don’t like me, you love me, you hate me. I am gonna be me, but one thing I have to back it up is skills.”’

‘“Dear God, I am only what you made me and I appreciate everything that you gave me, but like, I don’t want to do it anymore, sort of lost sight of what I’m doing it for.”’

‘“You should let the other day, you let me beg for you to stay.”’

‘“If people are sitting in the barbershop talking about my butt, it’s conversational. That’s what people are gonna do.”’

‘“You succeeded at your attempts to make me need you desperately to vindicate me.”’

‘“Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I am like, ‘This is a high-top day,’ or ‘This is a bob day,’ but when I get my clothes on that’s when I see.”’

‘ “May the Lord protect me as the world gets hectic. My voice projected, my life reflected.”’,

‘ “Got the eye of the tiger, the lion of Judah.”’

‘ “They don’t see the tears I cry, the fears I hide. Tend to keep my cares inside, it’s merely pride.”’

‘ “Strange how someone you once loved can become just another person you once knew.”’

‘ “You gave me strength gave me hope for a lifetime.” ‘

‘“I, I’m not living life. I’m not living right. I’m not living if you’re not by my side.”’

‘“I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.”’

‘ “Lavender is the new pink. I’ll never stop wearing pink but I wanted to venture out.”’