“I don’t feel safe because once I step out on the street, I don’t know if the second step I take will be my last.”

“We did a good thing for the gay community because it was something that nobody had the chance or the nerve to do.”

“After I met my father for the first time in 2002, I ran the gamut of emotions. But the overriding emotion was the realization of how important a biological father is to a woman.”

“If you are a part of the hip-hop culture, you instinctively and intuitively know what hip-hop is. And if you’re outside, you’re searching for a definition.”

Aside from being misconstrued as a one-hit wonder, Lumidee was going through a life-altering crisis that proved far more crippling than low album sales. But with the release of her second album, she is proof that if ’you don’t step forward, you’ll always be in the same place.’

“Our sound is not new. It’s not like people can’t access it, but it’s hard to get unless you‘re in the underground scene.”

There are a few things in life that are believed solely out of hope that they could maybe one day be real. Believing in things bigger than yourself is like wishing on a star or throwing salt over your shoulder. Most likely nothing will come of it … but wouldn’t it be nice?