People will love you and support you when it’s beneficial.

This line is not a free-floating motivational aphorism but the opening bar of Nicki Minaj's 2014 single "Pills N Potions," the lead single from her album The Pinkprint. The song's full opening couplet runs "People will love you and support you when it's beneficial / I'ma forgive, I won't forget, but I'ma dead the issue," and Minaj is a credited songwriter (under her legal name Onika Maraj, alongside Ester Dean and producers Dr. Luke and Cirkut). Minaj has publicly described the song as reflecting on "people who have come and gone" in her life and those who "bite the hand that fed them," which fits the sentiment exactly. The line's later appearances as an epigraph in novels and on quote-card sites are simply downstream reuse of the lyric, not evidence of a rival author, and we found nothing predating the 2014 song. On the strength of that primary source, we regard this as a genuine, verifiable Nicki Minaj line.