Quote

I always think - when I get mad, and people say, 'Don't be the angry black woman' - it's like, well, why not? There's so much to be angry about.

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

I don't even use profanity when I'm angry. I think people expected I'd have written a nice romance or something.

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.