“We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.” — Nas Quote

We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.

GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.

There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.

No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.

N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.

There's this idea that at the lowest rungs of the social ladder in an African family is a childless woman - and the lowest rung of all is a motherless child.

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I'm coming at soul from my own place.

We still have to create things for African American women. Just like Tyler Perry is doing it, we can't wait for things to happen; you have to go and make and create roles and go to people.