I've always been a champion of love.
— Princess Nokia
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 am really connected to my astral body. Thats why I think the study of chakras and auras are so important.
I believe in God, Nature, Magic, and the spiritual healing of all holistic properties.
I'm kind of like a musical Bill Cunningham.
I'm 100 percent in control of my artistry, music, and finances.
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 think that sharing experiences with a person is very valuable, because it allows you to have a bond to become closer.
I'm not aloof at all.
I'm from Harlem.
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.
When white supremacy has you down, honey, go out dancing, have as much fun as you can.
Everything that I embody is the fluidity of my own consumption.
I've had a lot of characters and personalities, accents and different aspects from all the walks of my life.
I am a gorgeous woman. That's not me being egotistical or narcissistic. It's just a fact, I'm a knockout.
I'm really into the fact that I could walk into any room and snatch any man in there like it's nothing.
I think that if I was a white male people would get me more. I do. I think that. I think a lot of things would make more sense if I was a guy and if I had people supporting me and saying this is the greatest thing in the world.
Music gives me a focused purpose. It saves my life every day.
My parents were artists, bohemian, hanging out a lot.
I meditate and pray multiple times a week to guide myself with divine clarity.
With every resurgence or generational turning, fashion and music becomes reiterated.
I bike around New York City for hours and write about everything I love, think about, or see. I also ride back and forth on the subway - that's where I get my best writing done.
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.
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've got a lot of male energy.
That whole Wavy Spice, '90s thing, it wasn't who I was or what I saw myself doing in the future.
I'm not trendy and I'm not popular.
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.
I'm undereducated in politics, and I don't like to involve myself in them because they have dark spaces that I do not want to touch.
I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I'm free to be myself.
I have confidence and je ne sais quoi. That is unmistakable.
I'm a big believer in letting your freak flag fly.
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.
Sometimes people think that I'm maybe pretentious or just weird, a fraud, or fake, because I have a formal education and speak properly and give people respect.
Music has empowered me through poverty, abuse, and mental-health issues.
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.
I'm very conscious of my body, and how I take care of it. I like clean foods, drink a lot of water, and soak up much sunlight and positive energy as I can.
Alternative culture has always had a populace within the black and brown community.
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.
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'm loud, I'm super comedic about my life, and I always try to look for partners who are the same about theirs, and with that I just try to always find a partner who I can have a laugh with who completely understands me before I begin to share anything.
The world is going to come to a place where we're all being spied on and nothing is private.
I was always so many different things, all at once: a little hood, a little punk, a little grunge, a little glam, a little gay. I have a whole bunch of flavours.
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.
My definition of God is the highest supreme feeling of beauty and light and happiness.
It's apparent that I'm really eccentric and lively.
My pheromones and my chemistry and the way I walk - I am divine feminine energy.
I think that brown people are attracted to rock music because it speaks on the spectrum of pain that brown people are predisposed to.
Every year, I assign myself to make a beautiful art piece which is my musical project for the year.
