Love her or hate her, Nicki Minaj certainly has the attention of many teenage boys and girls around the world. Through her lyrics and speeches, many have found inspiration towards being themselves and letting go of the haters. I hope these quotes can inspire you to live the life that you’ve imagined:
1. Some people have to put in work. Others get to cut corners. We see it but don’t say it. Welcome to the real world.
2. Haters, I’m not your enemy I’m your hero. Cheer up, you should be happy I’m here.
3. My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It’s a never-ending saga.
4. If I wasn’t winning, you wouldn’t care.
5. 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.
6. You’re not gonna tell me who I am. I’m gonna tell you who I am.
7. True confidence leaves no room for jealousy. When you know you are great, you have no need to hate.
8. We all have insecurities, but you have to know you’re beautiful.
9. 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.
10. I believe that life is a prize, but to live doesn’t mean you’re alive.
11. 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.
12. I will not let anyone scare me out of my full potential.
13. Mind over matter, I don’t mind and you don’t matter.
14. Life is a prize, but to live doesn’t mean you’re alive.
15. When a good girl’s gone, she’s gone forever.
16. I live and I learn but I wait my turn. I’m always on the run, got weight to burn.
17. There’s always gonna be evil people in the world who just do negative s**t.
18. My tears have dried and I know that no weapon formed against me will prosper.
19. You have to know that as long as you love who you are — your morals, your values, that type of stuff, you’re ok.
20. Shoutout to my haters, sorry you couldn’t phase me.
21. Good advice I always hated, but lookin back it made me greater.
22. When you’re a girl you have to be everything… 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.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. When I win and when I lose, I take ownership of it, because I really am in charge of what I do.
26. Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty.
27. Life is a movie, but there will never be a sequel.
28. 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.
29. If you don’t have critics, you probably don’t have success either.
30. You could be the king but watch the queen conquer.
31. I’ve always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect.
32. But had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.
33. So, my happiness doesn’t come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
34. I just want women to always feel in control. Because we’re capable, we’re so capable.
35. I get what I desire, it’s my empire.
36. 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.
37. 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.
38. I’m a multidimensional woman, like all women are. The difference is I have the balls to take chances.
39. Maybe your weird is my normal. Who’s to say?
40. Don’t chase the boys. Don’t depend on anybody. Do your thing.
41. Women should be allowed to be as hardcore and sexual as we want because men do it all the time.
42. Sometimes you gotta be beauty and a beast.
43. The people that are inclined to hate, are also inclined to be losers.
44. Your victory is right around the corner. Never give up.
45. Respect your haters. They’re the only ones who think you’re better than them.
46. Everything I’ve been through could’ve killed me. That’s why it really ain’t nothing you could tell me.
47. 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.
48. People will love you and support you when it’s beneficial.
49. 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.
50. You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don’t make moves and when you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition.
51. I’ll never be perfect. Believe me I’m worth it. So take me or leave me.
52. I think of myself as a woman who wants other women to be bosses and to be strong and to be go-getters.
53. Stay in school. Don’t ever be lazy, don’t you ever complain about hard work. Work hard, it pays off.
54. 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.
55. I ain’t never need a man to take care of me.
56. I just want women to feel in control, because we’re capable — we’re so capable.
57. I always feel it’s important for me to show females that they can be in charge of their own situation.
58. Tell me that you comin’ back and you just took a break. Maybe I blamed you for everything, that was my mistake. In hindsight I loved your rawness and I loved your edge. ‘Cause it was you who talked me down from jumping off the ledge.
59. He was the realest, I was the realest, we was the realest. When he approached me, I asked him ‘What the deal is?
60. Call it a curse, or just call me blessed, if you can’t handle my worst, you ain’t getting my best.
61. And when they lookin, you let me hide. Protect my honor, protect my pride.
62. Sometimes you don’t realize how far you’ve gotten until you look around at the people who are still trailing far behind you.
63. Don’t stay watching happiness, make it.
64. He was Adam. I think I was Eve. But my vision ends with the apple on the tree.
65. But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.
66. You gave me strength gave me hope for a lifetime.
67. Please, you can never compare to me, all these b***hes is scared of me. I am who they couldn’t even dare to be.
68. Strange how someone you once loved can become just another person you once knew.
69. I remember when I cried like “why me?” Now I wouldn’t Exchange my life for Armani
70. You don’t have to feel the need to put somebody down to make yourself feel better.
71. 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 any more, sort of lost sight of what I’m doing it for.
72. I am not a word, I am not a line, I am not a girl that can ever be defined.