Nicki Minaj Quotes

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

— Nicki Minaj

“I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'”

— Nicki Minaj

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

— Nicki Minaj

“I think sometimes the fashion world isn't even about clothes anymore; it's about this 'in' crowd, and I'm not into that.”

— Nicki Minaj

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

— Nicki Minaj

“I cannot hold a grudge against Mariah Carey. What people don't understand is that I've looked up to her for so many years.”

— Nicki Minaj

“I don't put cash in my Louis Vuitton wallet. I have it thrown around my bag - jut a whole bunch of hundreds, maybe $5,000.”

— Nicki Minaj

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

— Nicki Minaj

“My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.”

— Nicki Minaj

“One of the first production deals I signed, the guy wanted my name to be Minaj and I fought him tooth and nail. But he convinced me. I've always hated it.”

— Nicki Minaj

“I truly believe my haters are my motivators.”

— Nicki Minaj

“He toss my salad like his name Romaine”

— Nicki Minaj

“I hate wack niggas, I should really slap niggas.”

— Nicki Minaj

“Listen I'm the baddest in the school, the baddest in the game Excuse me honey but nobody's in my lane”

— Nicki Minaj

“Yes, yes I am ill. I go in for the kill.
Hoes is my sons, birth control, I am on the pill”

— Nicki Minaj

“Shawty Imma only tell you this once, you the illest
And for your loving Imma die hard like Bruce Willis”

— Nicki Minaj

“Shout out to my haters sorry you couldn't phase me.”

— Nicki Minaj

“Oh that's what he left? Let his mama pick it up. Might back up on it, VROOM VROOM wit the pick-up truck.”

— Nicki Minaj

Said that I was your all and I believed you. That's why it hurts to the core I gotta leave you.

— Nicki Minaj

“Whiz Galliano whip whip the Armani In the drip drip lick lick like a lolly”

— Nicki Minaj

“I'mma just do me, when it feel right.”

— Nicki Minaj

Yeah my money's so tall that my Barbie's gotta climb it

— Nicki Minaj

“Register my money, for the money gymnastic. Cause I make it flip now they be lookin all nasty.”

— Nicki Minaj

“When I saw myself with barely any makeup at, it was such a ... like, I'm so, so attached to my pink lipstick, it's hard. I feel that it's become a part of me. To go in front of the camera, without pink lips or big ol' crazy lashes- you know, nothing- I felt naked. It was scary! So this photo shoot was a real accomplishment in my eyes.”

— Nicki Minaj

“You can't run game on a rapper. I'm always 10 steps ahead of you.”

— Nicki Minaj

“He could ball with the crew, he could solo
But I think I like him better when he dolo”

— Nicki Minaj

“I mean *sigh* Sickening eyes I can tell that you're in touch with your feminine side”

— Nicki Minaj

Tryna forgive you for abandonin me Prayin but I think I'm still an angel away

— Nicki Minaj

“Gettin at Weezy you comin through me-zy & I won't hesitate to do anyone greasy”

— Nicki Minaj

“I'm brandin', I aint talking bout Presley. I keep a sniper, I aint talking bout Wesley.”

— Nicki Minaj

“Didn't know what I was doing but I put on a cape Now it's which world tour should I go on & take”

— Nicki Minaj

“Now it's me & my time, it's just me in my prime”

— Nicki Minaj

Bad as I wanna be. She aint bad, she a sad little wannabe.

— Nicki Minaj

“Now all my niggas gettin buck Overbite”

— Nicki Minaj

“I told Khaled you the best but I'm the bestest. Better run for cover if your name is on my checklist.”

— Nicki Minaj

“I bob and weave em, hit em wit that Mayweather JAB.”

— Nicki Minaj

“Pop ya kickstand little mama I'm the Nickster. I'll pop you then I'll pop your little sister.”

— Nicki Minaj

“She on a diet but her pockets eating cheese cake”

— Nicki Minaj

“Just when they thought I was done for the winter, I came out stuntin I'm such a big spender.”

— Nicki Minaj

“Overseas, church, Vatican You at a stand still mannequin”

— Nicki Minaj

“Keep a marquee everything sparkly Man down hit em on the walkie talkie”

— Nicki Minaj

I can always remember standing up to the baddest girls in my elementary school. Wherever I went, there was always a mean girl, and that girl would always hate me because I wouldn't bow down.

— Nicki Minaj

“Please you can never compare to me, all these b****es is scared of me. I am who they couldn't even dare to be.”

— Nicki Minaj

I mean, m-m-m-my you're like pelican fly

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I grew up in the south of Italy, next to the sea, which was a great place to grow up. The type of life we lived there was very relaxing. Just very fun, open-minded people. It was all very sociable and low-key.

— Nicki Minaj

“All rappers predominantly sound the same and want you to think their meanest person in the world, and that they're all gangster and all that. My acting allowed me to be playful and crazy, and it helps me tell stories and all that. I think it's a good time; rap needs that kind of stuff.”

— Nicki Minaj

I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies which are bootlegged.

— Nicki Minaj

“When you're working and you're busy and you're successful, no matter what, something suffers, whether it's your relationship with your mother, your relationship with your whole family. Certain things suffer and take the back burner, not because they're on the back burner in your heart but because the world just moves so quickly. A lot of people, when they're chasing their dreams, they have to leave people they love.”

— Nicki Minaj

“Nothing is worse than going home and having not played a gig.”

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“I really, really don't think that, outside of maybe some pink wigs, [that] there's anything that separates me from every other woman in America.”

— Nicki Minaj