I was a little hesitant to do 'Love & Hip-Hop' because sometimes reality TV can be good for your music career and sometimes bad.

I don't want my personality to overshadow my talent.

To see the positive reaction to my music makes me feel good.

I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.

My mom kicked me out a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday. I had a job for about six, seven months at a supermarket, and they fired me for being late.

I was a loner; I was never the crazy party girl.

I'd rather have money and be broken-hearted than be broke and broken-hearted.

Being a feminist is being equal to do what a man do.

Music never felt like a job.

I wanna hear myself everywhere.

Say yes to everything. 'You want me to buy you some food?' Yes. 'You want me to buy you a car?' Yes.

The faster I make a lot of money, the faster I can have these kids I want.

I'm an October baby, yes.

I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can't dream about it anymore. It's easier to settle for less.

I do feel kind of guilty sometimes 'cause, like, I could buy myself a $5,000 dress or a $3,000 dress, and I'm buying these things, but I'm knowing that my cousin need money for the rent. And then I gotta tell myself, 'Stop feeling guilty. You worked for this.'

Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No.

I'm gonna be famous forever.

I'll do something that brings me a check.

Ever since I started using guys, I feel so much better about myself. I feel so much more powerful.

If a girl have beef with me, she gon' have beef with me forever.

I have a passion for music; I love music. But I also have a passion for money and paying my bills.

When you hear my lyrics, you hear the shots that I throw at people. I throw shots because I always been the underdog. I got rejected so many times, and I say it in my lyrics constantly.

A lot of females, they want to do the things that I do. Some females are so closed, but they want to be open. Some girls, they want to feel that power that I tell them that I have. I tell women that I have power over these men, that I use these men.

People are afraid to be themselves because people are afraid to be recorded. Everything is being recorded, and everyone is so sensitive. You say something; a section of people will be offended. It's so annoying; you got to be completely censored.

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

My Instagram got deleted a lot of times. I used to do rough jokes and curse a lot.

I'm on my phone 24-7. I see everything. I hear everything. I am the voice of the streets.

I'm not as open as I used to be. I'm a little bit more filtered, and it kind of sucks, but it's the price you pay to get paid.

It's not that people want to be like me, but some want to say the things I say and can't because they're afraid. I say it for them.

I cry sometimes. I get very upset.

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!'

My sister's name is Hennessy, so everybody used to be, like, 'Bacardi' to me. Then I shortened it to Cardi B. The 'B' stands for whatever, depending on the day... beautiful or bully.

No one calls me Belcalis except for my family, my mother, and my daddy.

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

I think beautiful is like looking like you take care of yourself.

I'm a woman. Every woman, I think, wants to get married and wants to have children.

It's never too early to get married now.

People should listen to my music because it's good.

I'm surprised Beyonce liked me. I met Beyonce!

The first splurge that I did, I bought, like, an $80,000 watch, but that's because I'm a rapper. I need jewelry.

I'm so free-spirited. Everyone has a me inside them: that loud girl that just wanna go, 'Ayyyy!' No matter if you a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, it comes out.

No man wants to accept they could be getting used for money. But it's OK for them to let us know that they use us?

I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don't just want to do this for temporary money.

When I do music, I don't feel like it's competition. Then again, it kinda is, but I don't like thinking like that. And I don't understand why they do that to women and, especially, women in hip-hop.

I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society.

I'm about this shmoney.

I just feel like I influence people because I'm like - I was practically homeless.

I'm a funny person, but I take my music seriously.

I worked at this supermarket called Amish Market. Everything is, like, organic.

Me and my mom are pretty cool. My mother's Caribbean, and she gets a little spicy, and I get a little spicy back.