For me, surviving Compton is surviving the men, because Suge and Dre are from Compton. So in my world, in my mind, I survived their mentality. Michel'le More Quotes by Michel'le More Quotes From Michel'le 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? Michel'le ignorance challenges america Before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation. Michel'le broken problem soul 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 Michel'le bigs focus real 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. Michel'le aftermath night thinking 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? Michel'le weed dream running Dre couldn't have given me those words to write, and he couldn't have given me that voice to sing. I couldn't have given him that musical talent or the ability that he has. What we made came from putting things together. I've always said that. Michel'le musical voice writing I tried to be strong in the face of obstacles. Michel'le obstacles strong faces There are no mistakes in life, and it's not about anybody being able to judge you. Michel'le able judging mistake 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. Michel'le music-is who-i-am knowing 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. Michel'le our-world country america My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world Michel'le daughter heart world 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. Michel'le car parent kids When I say I loved it, I don't mean I loved being hit. I just mean...there was some good in there, too. I am not going to call it all bad. Michel'le mean I would go back in time and do differently it is that. I would go back and ask, 'Why?' But I never did. I got up, he got up, we went on about our day. We never discussed the situation [with Dre]. Just, never. Michel'le back-in-time go-back-in-time situation I think the first time [Dre] did [biten me]. We cried together. I assumed he did. I assumed that would be the first and last time. I learned that it wasn't. Michel'le together firsts thinking I know in the movie it looks like my grandmother is condoning it, but she really wasn't. But back in those days, men beat women. She was trying to tell me something without being judgmental, trying to help me understand that's what men do. Michel'le grandmother trying men When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over. Michel'le three months mother I was appearing on the reality show R&B Divas and when I started to fall apart it was very public. But I am glad that it happened that way. It made me see myself. And it made me transparent. Michel'le reality way fall Doing reality TV is hard. You get lost. You are shooting three months before anybody sees it. So you are past [the emotions]. Then when it airs and the public sees it, they react and it drags you back. It feels you have grown, but then you suddenly feel like you haven't moved at all. Michel'le air reality past I had to survive a lot. I didn't premeditate my life. Life just happened as it did. And I had to figure it out as I went along. Michel'le happened figures
