Quotes from Cardi B

Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No.

The first splurge that I did, I bought, like, an $80,000 watch, but that's because I'm a rapper. I need jewelry.

It's not even the female rappers that are catty - it's the fans. They just want that beef.

To see the positive reaction to my music makes me feel good.

I was a little hesitant to do 'Love & Hip-Hop' because sometimes reality TV can be good for your music career and sometimes bad.

I worked at this supermarket called Amish Market. Everything is, like, organic.

I do feel kind of guilty sometimes 'cause, like, I could buy myself a $5,000 dress or a $3,000 dress, and I'm buying these things, but I'm knowing that my cousin need money for the rent. And then I gotta tell myself, 'Stop feeling guilty. You worked for this.'

This is my work ethic: I do not want to raise my future kids where I was raised, and I know the only way to do it is working, working, working, working, working.

I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society.

That's why I be so careful with my money and always try to invest. I see people who have it all and then lose it.

My Instagram got deleted a lot of times. I used to do rough jokes and curse a lot.

I'm an October baby, yes.

Say yes to everything. 'You want me to buy you some food?' Yes. 'You want me to buy you a car?' Yes.

The faster I make a lot of money, the faster I can have these kids I want.

I'm not domestic. I think I will be. I love kids. I really want to have a kid, but I'm not a domestic person.

When I do music, I don't feel like it's competition. Then again, it kinda is, but I don't like thinking like that. And I don't understand why they do that to women and, especially, women in hip-hop.

I used to worry a lot. I still worry a lot, but not about the things that I used to worry about because my younger self, I didn't regret anything that I ever did... I was happy, and I was free, and I was living it up.

That was an organic relationship. He reached out to me, and I was like, 'Oh my God, I cannot believe somebody like Laquan Smith wants to put his clothes on me.' He comes from a small place, and he has big dreams, and what I like about him the most is that his clothes curve with your body.

I think beautiful is like looking like you take care of yourself.

What I'm trying to say to girls is don't let these guys be in your head.

I'ma sound like all your favorite rappers.

Me and my mom are pretty cool. My mother's Caribbean, and she gets a little spicy, and I get a little spicy back.

It's just like, damn - I'm competing with myself.

When you hear my lyrics, you hear the shots that I throw at people. I throw shots because I always been the underdog. I got rejected so many times, and I say it in my lyrics constantly.