Kandi Burruss Quotes

I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

For a long time, I was portrayed as the Osama bin Laden of the Internet, and I really wanted to be able to tell my side of the story. I wanted to be able to explain exactly what I did and what I didn't do to people who thought they knew me.

At the end of the day, it is about the album and book and also about setting the record straight, because 'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years. So that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.

'I know this is going to end bad, but I'm going to pretend it's going to end good.' My life's philosophy.

I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of... own everything. There was a lot of stuff a couple of years ago saying that I was bullied at Brown and awful things like that, none of which were true.

If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!

Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

You will find that in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motives. Never complain and never explain.

Success is ... what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

Our adversaries think they can gain a point, if they could force me to openly deny this charge. For this reason, it must not publicly appear that I am paying any attention to the charge.

The more you have in print, the more they can use it against you.

I was very protective of my privacy. I didn't want people to write bad things about me that weren't true, because that's just not fair. Fifty percent of everything written about me is wrong.

I always felt if something bad happens, it can be your best opportunity. The times I was most depressed turned out to be the best things.

Honestly, everybody gets talked about. Some people control their press a little more than others. Some people feed the press and move it the way they want to. I don't do that.

When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.

As a journalist, I know what it is like to incur the self-righteous wrath of people who denounce you for things you didn't say or didn't mean.

When people come to KO me, that's when I catch them off-guard and get the KO myself.

Negative press is always going to come out.

You take what's thrown at you, and you make a life out of it.

I think my reputation speaks for itself. But everybody is entitled to their own opinion, and I'm going to continue to play football - play physical football.

We've had a lot of controversy in our career, and it's never been intentional.

If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.

Rumors will always be there. So, good or bad you have to take them in your stride because you are a public figure.