Quotes from Angie Martinez

If you are a woman with this full life who is incredibly ambitious like I am, you have to find somebody who is into it, respects it, encourages it, and celebrates it because he loves that about you. Otherwise, you're going to feel like you're muting yourself.

I try to be real positive because I know I'm being listened to, and I have a responsibility.

I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show.

I had to tell the city that 2Pac passed, and I had to be on the radio early after Biggie passed. Those were awful, emotional.

I think I'm like the kid who loved hip hop, and all of a sudden - I don't know what it was - it started to put me in positions to do great things.

I love Jay personally and as an artist; I think he's incredible.

The beauty about my career is that none of it was really calculated.

I was hanging out with some of what my mother would consider the wrong kind of kids. With no direction, no motivation. I would hang out in the lunchroom all day, or the handball courts

My mother was a great influence in my life and my career. She not only helped me master the business side of radio, but she also taught me how to conduct myself.

Every weekend we've been trying to go out of town, to let people know about this album. I've been trying to host parties. It's hard, because it's a lot of work to do both.

I had a lot of respect for Biggie, and it was just a weird, kinda difficult thing. When I'm doing touchy interviews like that, I just try to be fair to both parties.

After you date a player or two it's nice to just chill with a guy that can keep it basic.

Go with the flow, but pray God keeps you afloat.

We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.

When I was 16, my mother moved me out of Brooklyn and sent me to Florida to stay with my family for a little bit because I was being bad, not going to school and stuff.

I think it's important for women to know that you don't have to compromise your fullness, your dopeness. You can be everything you want to be.

It's always interesting to talk to people's moms or sisters or wives. It gives you a different perspective of somebody that everybody already thinks they knew.

I like Chance The Rapper a lot.

Whenever I think I'm going to get certain information out of a person, it's never as effective or comfortable as just having an open conversation, listening to them, being present, and being open to hearing something I didn't even know they were going to say.

I went to night school and summer school, I made that whole year up and I actually graduated on time. Also, I got a part-time job at the radio station.

I knew that when it came time for me to finally make my own album, it wasnt going to be about being a jock. It had to be more personal and intimate.

Imagine the first time you are about to rap in a studio and you find yourself in a booth with Redman and KRS!

I love what I do because I get to talk to the people who change the game: the influencers, visionaries who make things happen in music and culture. That's inspiring to me.

I'm on the radio because I love hip-hop. I represent that community, but there are so many other aspects to who I am as a person.