Top 91 Quotes & Sayings by Michel'le

My family is from New Orleans. My grandma is French. Everybody else is from Mississippi - Creole people.

We had everything. We were young kids. We were driving cars our parents couldn't afford, living in big houses. For me to sit here and say, 'Oh my God, I didn't enjoy any of it' - no, I did. Of course I did.

I am used to Suge's behavior, most of our relationship was under the shadow of him being in and out of prison and always being in trouble.

I went away, I was gone for 2 1/2 months, and they said, 'oh, Dr. Dre is engaged.' I had already had it out with this girl before I left. He was sleeping with her so I was like, 'Come on!'

Looking back I didn't even know I was depressed, I was just so used to feeling that way and thought that was what life was. I tried telling my family and friends but they just blow you off and say: 'Yeh right.' They don't know what it is, so they just don't want to be around that.

In life, you can't regret anything because it's called opportunities that you pass. You're the only one that can take the opportunity but you disappoint yourself with the decision of doing or not doing.

I was with Dre when he was just selling tapes. He didn't have a car, a license or a job.

When you find a guy that wants to be with you all the time, you think that's love, right?

Therapy is really good, so I'm kind of sticking with therapy.

You want your children to have that type of family feeling and bond.

I am so excited about working with the girls at the Boys & Girls Club East Los Angeles. Being apart of a program that helps young people go after their dreams is something special and I feel it's an honor and privilege to participate.

I had five black eyes. I have a cracked rib. I have scars that are just amazing.

I never got with Dre for money because he didn't have a driver's license, a car or insurance... or a house. We lived with his Auntie, who I ended up calling mommy.

Sometimes you have to go back and understand why you are the way you are.

I didn't have any aspirations of becoming a singer.

Right at the peak of my - I went on the Hammer tour and found out I was 6 weeks pregnant, and we had two more months to go. I had to come home and drop that baby and finish out some more shows and then I became a stay-at-home mommy.

I have done my fair share of visiting Suge in jail over the years.

Why did I date the same kind of man? You look for the same kind of man, and you attract the same kind of man... A lot of it comes from you being a child, your household, and what you see that you've put in your subconscious.

I did five videos and we had to cover three black eyes. It seemed like the day before a video, I would get a black eye and we had to cover it.

Believe it or not when I got with Suge he really didn't beat me.

On 'R&B Divas,' there were times when we wanted to just sit and laugh and the producers created drama.

If I'm on the phone, ordering something, people often tell me to have my mother come to the phone. They don't believe I'm a grown-up.

I was with Dre before NWA was even a thought.

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over. They were everything to me and my world was shattered.

I'm used to people being surprised at how I talk.

I was always shy when I was growing up.

Suge is more mature than Dre, believe it or not. He came from a married household. He knew what love was. Dre may have missed that window.

I wear black a lot. I like black.

Dre says it gets on his nerves when I try to rap. He'd rather have me sing.

I stayed because it was normal. After the first hit, you don't think they're going to do it again. And it does escalate, but I stayed because it became normal. I didn't call the police because I didn't want them to go to jail and it just was normal.

Me and Dre have the best relationship in the world; we don't have one at all. I don't look for an apology from him because I don't think it would do anything. It wouldn't be meaningful.

For many years I was unwilling to share my personal experiences.

I never thought I could make it big. I was just a cashier. I didn't want to be just another average person, but all I had was some dreams.

I don't bad mouth them in front of my children. They have their own relationships with their fathers, which is amazing.

When I met Dre, N.W.A. didn't exist, nor did Michel'le. And I think we had a chemistry.

I can truly say that a lot of things that happened in my life, saved my life.

I was just a quiet girlfriend who got beat up and told to sit down and shut up.

People always think that domestic abuse is something that you live with and get over. But no. You have mental scars.

I don't think about tomorrow because I want to enjoy today and practice being the best me today.

I cannot protect my child from everything, I don't care if it is sex, drink or drugs, all I can do is teach her what is bad and what is good.

You know what my grandmother said, eventually: 'When a man beats you, he doesn't like you. He has women issues and it starts probably with their mothers.' And I said 'You're probably right.'

My last name is difficult to pronounce. It's Toussant.

Abuse is not love. That's no way to treat a woman.

It's hard when you get beat. You can't understand it until you get beat.

I was serious if I was ever gonna get married.

I am so excited about my partnership with Thinkfactory Media.

I don't have any regrets. I call them disappointments.

The abuse was just routine. I didn't wake up the next day and say, 'Dre, why did you hit me?' We never talked about it the next day. Never. I can't think of any time we had a discussion about the aftermath of what happened the night before.

When I was a little kid we got whipped. It was nothing new to me, I was used to it.

There are no mistakes in life, and it's not about anybody being able to judge you.

Studying in countries like China isn't only about your prospects in the global marketplace. It's not just about whether you can compete with your peers in other countries to make America stronger. It's also about whether you can come together and work together with them to make our world stronger. It's about the friendships you make, the bonds of trust you establish and the image of America that you project to the rest of the world.

Before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.

Here are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses, dreaming of cashing in big—big money, big businesses selling weed—after 40 years of impoverished black kids getting prison time for selling weed, and their families and futures destroyed. Now, white men are planning to get rich doing precisely the same thing?

It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?

My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world

Well, right now, my music is - it's just happy. I'm not in a relationship, but I know who I am now. I have wisdom. I have the power of knowing who I am. That's huge.

I can't think of any time we had a discussion [with Dre] about the aftermath of what happened the night before. We just had too much going on.

Someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

I tried to be strong in the face of obstacles.

Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we're doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change