Foxy Brown Quotes

#1. When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.

Action Bronson

#2. She'd [Allegra] look like Foxy Brown's little sister, except her head is SHAVED SMOOTH.

Richard Kadrey

#3. Personally, I don't do certain things. I read articles and they'll pit me against Lil' Kim like I'm going to smash them down. I never said any of that; I never said I didn't like Kim or Foxy [Brown].

Jean Grae

#4. I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

Foxy Brown

#5. I was super-obsessed with cover videos. When I was, like, 10, I would come home from school and watch them from 4 o'clock until 8 o'clock every night. I was so intrigued that people took these super-popular songs and did them their own way.

Shawn Mendes

#6. All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story.

Foxy Brown

#7. I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.

Foxy Brown

#8. My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person.

Foxy Brown

#9. To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads.

Foxy Brown

#10. My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious.

Foxy Brown

#11. My purpose is far greater than my pain.

Foxy Brown

#12. You can't drive to the coastline. You can only drive so close to the white chalky cliff and then you have to get out and dive.

Joyelle McSweeney

#13. 32 grams raw, chop it in half, get 16. Double it times three, we got 48. Which mean a whole lot of cream. Divide the profit by four. Subtract it by eight. We back to 16.

Foxy Brown

#14. Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.

Foxy Brown

#15. I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, 'Let's start the year off together,' and then we wound up breaking up the night after!

Joe Jonas

#16. If you look at most successful startups, they're run by people in their mid to late forties, who've gone through the trenches multiple times and had multiple failures, so they understand.

Tony Fadell

#17. Twist my Body like the Exorcist ...

Foxy Brown

#18. Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

Laozi

#19. I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.

Foxy Brown

#20. The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.

Foxy Brown

#21. I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.

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#22. It feels so good to tell the truth.

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#23. I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Voltaire

#24. I'd go down in history for being the most revealing nun ever!

Foxy Brown

#25. I'm not at every party; I'm not seen everywhere. That's why people still care about my brand.

Foxy Brown

#26. I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.

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#27. The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.

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#28. I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.

Foxy Brown

#29. I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.

Foxy Brown

#30. I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.

Foxy Brown

#31. I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to change.

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#32. Put out great music, and that's that.

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#33. You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That's how I put it.

Chris Bauer

#34. My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

Emmanuelle Beart

#35. I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.

Foxy Brown