“I feel beautiful without makeup on, but when I do put makeup on, it just gives me this extra pop.”
― Cardi B
“It’s just like, damn – I’m competing with myself.”
― Cardi B
“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.”
― Cardi B
“I’m an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.”
― Cardi B
“If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can’t have it, you just go and get it.”
― Cardi B
“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.”
― Cardi B
“I’m an October baby, yes.”
― Cardi B
“I’m about this shmoney.”
― Cardi B
“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.”
― Cardi B
“If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever.”
― Cardi B
“My personality is humongous.”
― Cardi B
“This is my work ethic: I do not want to raise my future kids where I was raised, and I know the only way to do it is working, working, working, working, working.”
― Cardi B
“I could really make a song of hurt, because I’ve been hurt by a lot of men. I’m talking about, like, how sad I be when a dude curves me. And I never talk about that because I refuse to let people know that I get sad because when a man don’t answer my calls.”
― Cardi B
“I don’t know how to drive.”
― Cardi B
“I used to tell myself that I will always be myself.”
― Cardi B
“I yam who I yam; I’m not somebody, like, standard.”
― Cardi B
“Make more than the guys you thought you wanted to be with.”
― Cardi B
“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.”
― Cardi B
“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.”
― Cardi B
“The women that inspire me to be honest are the women that struggle.”
― Cardi B
“Summertime, this is the time that you flex.”
― Cardi B
“I’m on my phone 24-7. I see everything. I hear everything. I am the voice of the streets.”
― Cardi B
“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?”
― Cardi B
“I really don’t look up to anybody that is doing that great in life, because I don’t know their story.”
― Cardi B
“I think beautiful is like looking like you take care of yourself.”
― Cardi B
“A lot of people always question, ‘What else can she do, what else can she do?’ And I’m going to show you.”
― Cardi B
“Ever since I started using guys, I feel so much better about myself. I feel so much more powerful.”
― Cardi B
“Whatever hair color I have on my head, that’s what decides what type of outfit I’m going to wear, because not everything goes with your hair color. That’s why I switch it up.”
― Cardi B
“I don’t want my personality to overshadow my talent.”
― Cardi B
“To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn’t art, but the person you become when you’re famous – your alter ego – that’s art.”
― Cardi B
“You can’t tell me that I can’t dress!”
― Cardi B
“People want me to be so full of shame that I used to dance. I would never be ashamed of it. I made a lot of money. I had a good time, and it showed me a lot.”
― Cardi B
“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.”
― Cardi B
“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!’”
― Cardi B
“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.”
― Cardi B
“When I was 19, 20, 21, I wasn’t extremely thick.”
― Cardi B
“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.”
― Cardi B
“Say yes to everything. ‘You want me to buy you some food?’ Yes. ‘You want me to buy you a car?’ Yes.”
― Cardi B
“A lot of designers, they did tell me no. They didn’t really wanna work with me.”
― Cardi B
“I’d rather have money and be broken-hearted than be broke and broken-hearted.”
― Cardi B
“We might as well be true with ourselves.”
― Cardi B
“I’m a funny person, but I take my music seriously.”
― Cardi B
“What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.”
― Cardi B
“I used to worry a lot. I still worry a lot, but not about the things that I used to worry about because my younger self, I didn’t regret anything that I ever did… I was happy, and I was free, and I was living it up.”
― Cardi B
“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.”
― Cardi B
“I just feel like I influence people because I’m like – I was practically homeless.”
― Cardi B
“Being a feminist is being equal to do what a man do.”
― Cardi B
“I cry sometimes. I get very upset.”
― Cardi B
“Me and my mom are pretty cool. My mother’s Caribbean, and she gets a little spicy, and I get a little spicy back.”
― Cardi B
“I don’t want to live in a small Bronx apartment. I don’t want to have three kids that got to share one room.”
― Cardi B
“Libras like to take risks!”
― Cardi B
“I was a loner; I was never the crazy party girl.”
― Cardi B
“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.’”
― Cardi B
“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.”
― Cardi B
“I never thought I was going to be popular; I never thought I was going to be famous.”
― Cardi B
“I need to make money for my family and my future family. I’m not a YOLO person.”
― Cardi B
“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.”
― Cardi B
“I worked at this supermarket called Amish Market. Everything is, like, organic.”
― Cardi B
“I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don’t just want to do this for temporary money.”
― Cardi B
“I cannot turn my life back around. I’m already a public figure, I’m famous… It’s like, I might as well keep it going, might as well make the money.”
― Cardi B
“Music never felt like a job.”
― Cardi B
“I’m not domestic. I think I will be. I love kids. I really want to have a kid, but I’m not a domestic person.”
― Cardi B
“I have 100 percent Bronx pride, like it’s a country, like I am the Bronx.”
― Cardi B
“My Instagram got deleted a lot of times. I used to do rough jokes and curse a lot.”
― Cardi B
“I have a passion for music; I love music. But I also have a passion for money and paying my bills.”
― Cardi B
“I was a little hesitant to do ‘Love & Hip-Hop’ because sometimes reality TV can be good for your music career and sometimes bad.”
― Cardi B
“The faster I make a lot of money, the faster I can have these kids I want.”
― Cardi B
“I’m gonna be famous forever.”
― Cardi B
“I’ll do something that brings me a check.”
― Cardi B
“People should listen to my music because it’s good.”
― Cardi B
“I’m surprised Beyonce liked me. I met Beyonce!”
― Cardi B
“What I’m trying to say to girls is don’t let these guys be in your head.”
― Cardi B
“That’s why I be so careful with my money and always try to invest. I see people who have it all and then lose it.”
― Cardi B
“I love Lady Gaga. When I was in high school, I really wanted to dress like her.”
― Cardi B
“I’ma sound like all your favorite rappers.”
― Cardi B
“I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.”
― Cardi B
“Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No.”
― Cardi B
“No one calls me Belcalis except for my family, my mother, and my daddy.”
― Cardi B
“I’m a woman. Every woman, I think, wants to get married and wants to have children.”
― Cardi B
“The first splurge that I did, I bought, like, an $80,000 watch, but that’s because I’m a rapper. I need jewelry.”
― Cardi B
“That was an organic relationship. He reached out to me, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, I cannot believe somebody like Laquan Smith wants to put his clothes on me.’ He comes from a small place, and he has big dreams, and what I like about him the most is that his clothes curve with your body.”
― Cardi B
“It’s not even the female rappers that are catty – it’s the fans. They just want that beef.”
― Cardi B
“Instagram has said plenty of times that I’m pregnant, Instagram has said a lot of things about me that are not true, so I don’t even know where that’s coming from.”
― Cardi B
“To see the positive reaction to my music makes me feel good.”
― Cardi B
“I wanna hear myself everywhere.”
― Cardi B
“It’s never too early to get married now.”
― Cardi B
“I don’t feel like anyone should follow what I did.”
― Cardi B
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