Princess Nokia

“Everything that I embody is the fluidity of my own consumption.”

“I'd been suffering all of my life. I think comedians and artists, we do that. We know how to be the life of the party and enjoy exuberance outside of pain.”

“Sometimes people think that I'm maybe pretentious or just weird, a fraud, or fake, because I have a formal education and speak properly and give people respect.”

“There are many types of education: formal education, street education, personal education, experiential education, and I've found that I've had different partners who have a lot of wonderful...”

“With every resurgence or generational turning, fashion and music becomes reiterated.”

“I was always so many different things, all at once: a little hood, a little punk, a little grunge, a little glam, a little gay. I have a whole bunch of flavours.”

“I was a happy-go-lucky gothic girl who had an optimistic spirit cos I was suffering a lot at home.”

“I believe in God, Nature, Magic, and the spiritual healing of all holistic properties.”

“Men should understand that women are creatures of nature, and that they are to be respected as nature, and that they are interchangeable and complex like nature.”

“Music is a beauty pageant. When I go put myself out there, I'm going to compete.”

“When I started out rapping, I became very frightened by the idea that people were trying to pigeonhole me. That's usually what happens to most female rappers. They fit in a box and there's a...”

“Alternative culture has always had a populace within the black and brown community.”

“I'm very conscious of my body, and how I take care of it. I like clean foods, drink a lot of water, and soak up much sunlight and positive energy as I can.”

“I'm a Puerto Rican woman whose family has roots in Regla de Ocha, also known as Santeria.”

“I just want to purify my body, purify my mind, and make good music and keep living my life.”

“Black people created punk - the band Death was way before The Ramones. Same with Bad Brains. If you think about it, the wool has been pulled over our eyes.”

“I think that the power of reinvention is very important.”

“The principles of punk-rock culture, of self-expression and DIY culture, that really spoke to me.”

“I don't have a make-up artist and I don't need a stylist.”

“I bike around New York City for hours and write about everything I love, think about, or see. I also ride back and forth on the subway - that's where I get my best writing done.”