Cardi B

I feel beautiful without makeup on, but when I do put makeup on, it just gives me this extra pop.

The women that inspire me, to be honest, are the women that struggle.

I have 100 percent Bronx pride like it’s a country like I AM the Bronx.

Me: Unbothered, moisturized, in my lane, well-hydrated, flourishing.

I don’t know how to drive.

When women come up to me like, ‘I am a freaking senator,’ or, ‘I’m a doctor,’ it’s like, ‘Damn, y’all like me? I look up to y’all!’

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

You know you’re getting old when you stop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.

We tell lies when we are afraid, . . . afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s still got two sides.

Whenever you get the idea that you are ‘fixed’ or that anything is ‘fixed’ for life, you’d better get ready for a sudden change.

What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.

Toe: A part of the foot used to find furniture in the dark.