Top 30 NeNe Leakes Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I don’t keep up with the Joneses, I am the Joneses.”

— NeNe Leakes

2. “I have arrived, and the spotlight is on me, honey!”

— NeNe Leakes

3. “Why be so nasty and so rude, when I can be so fierce and so successful.”

— NeNe Leakes

4. “Let me get you to understand I don’t bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I’m very honest and I always tell the truth. I’m not a liar, I’m not manipulative and I don’t stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.”

— NeNe Leakes

5. “I know I’m not a bully and everybody has their opinions and that’s fine with me.”

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6. “I’m a size 10. I could be a size 8 if i wanted to, but i’m effin hungry.”

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7. “When I walk into the room, I own it!”

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8. “I think that everyone is saying all kinds of things about ‘rich.’ Not only am I rich from doing some of things I’ve been able to do, but I’m rich in spirit. I’m rich in health. I’m rich in every way possible.”

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9. “Because I’m shooting ‘The New Normal’ and ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ at the same time, so my schedule is double. I leave one show and go and shoot the other. The cameras are with me for, like, every day of my life. So I’m extremely tired.”

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10. “Close your legs to married men!”

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11. “I’m just not into trying to convince people like me. I always say to myself, ‘It is what it is.’ I walk into a situation knowing that people are either going to love me or they’re not, and that’s OK. I’m just going to be me. You can’t be everything to everyone.”

— NeNe Leakes

12. “I have a glam-baby. Let’s be correct, now. I’m way too young and too fabulous to be a grandma. I’m a glam-mom.”

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13. “My first film was with Cuba Gooding Jr, ‘The Fighting Temptations,’ and I had a little part here and there on little shows as guest stars. And I’ve taken acting classes.”

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14. “I’ve heard that I’ve gotten a lighter complexion, as if I’ve bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous. For those who want to bleach their skin, that’s fine. I just didn’t bleach mine. I’m a black woman. I don’t want to be anything but a black woman.”

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15. “I feel like strength comes from within. And like everything that I am and experience make you strong. And I’ve been through so many things in my life and those things have taught me. I’m one of those girls, every experience, I learned from my experience.”

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16. “I’m just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don’t have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine.”

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17. “When you watch these reality shows, the person that is hated on the most is usually the one that gets the most shine.”

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18. “I am obsessed with trash TV. I watch all reality shows. I watch all the ‘Housewives.’ I am a huge fan of ‘New Jersey.’”

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19. “I wouldn’t want to do a ‘Maury Povich’ show. Baby daddy! Who’s your daddy? Who’s your mama? I wouldn’t want to do that kind of show.”

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20. “Teen Moms! I started watching them like the first two seasons, and I stopped. I stopped because they are too young. I feel sorry for them. And I didnt watch that show Hoarders. That thing would made my skin crawl.”

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21. “Well, you know, I love being an entrepreneur and when I did ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ with Mr. Trump, he taught us a lot about starting businesses.”

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22. “I don’t know what reality television does, but it breaks up relationships.”

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23. “I am here now, because I am supposed to be here. And I guess when it is my time to cross over there, I will be over there. I am not religious, but I am spiritual, honey. My day is coming!”

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24. “I feel like I’ve come off as an outspoken woman. Sometimes I think I’ve come off as confrontational. But I feel like it’s been pretty fair. Those are parts of me.”

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25. “I don’t have anything to hide. And for the record, I am not against plastic surgery. I believe that any woman that wants to do anything or fix anything that bothers her – if she’s doing it for herself – I’m all for it.”

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26. “Every year for New Years I write down all of my goals and dreams and put them in my Bible. At the end of the year I go and pull the paper out and check this off and check that off.”

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27. “I love talk shows and hosting. I would want to do something like that. I’m not sure I would want to be a reality star continuously.”

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28. “I like the Kardashians. I’m a fan. I watch their show.”

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29. “I don’t get star-stuck. I love Angelina Jolie, though.”

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30. “I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who’ve had success, to prove to audiences that you don’t have to be a fool to become successful.”

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31. “Not only did I come out as a reality star that was very boisterous and vivacious and outspoken and all those things. I flipped that into money and respect. And a lot of people can’t do that.”

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32. “There are so many reality shows on now where they want you to be crazy, the girls are just going bananas; you know how they portray brown girls. They portray us in a different type of light.”

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33. “I’m for all kinds of gay rights. I’m almost like a gay man myself.”

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34. “I was very popular in high school.”

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