Quotes from Tionne Watkins

I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.

I never thought black people would say I wasn't black enough. It didn't turn me into a bully - it just put me on the defensive. I had to watch my back. It made me stronger because I learned how to deal with ignorance.

There's vultures out here. You need to listen and learn.

At the end of the day, I do think there's a higher power, and the way I feel about things and choose to do things has an effect on that outcome.

Some people criticize me for always wearing different variations of bobs, but bobs never go out of style.

We were always authentic when it came to our style. From when we started to the height of our fame, we've always been consistent in our look because how we dressed was a result of how we felt. We weren't playing dress-up.

If it has something of substance and a platform that makes sense, I can share my story. You can get a little more into my life, and I can mesh my singing with things I love to do and writing for others and telling my story in hopes of helping someone. I'm all for it.

I get a lot of 'Oh, you've been gone.' I wasn't gone. Just because you didn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't working and collecting checks. I just wasn't singing and doing videos. I do a lot of other things, like I said, like writing scripts and stuff like that. I write for other artists.

The doctors told me I could never have kids, but God blessed me anyway.

At the end of the day we feel the same; we all hurt.

What I'm proud of, we learned from our lessons.