The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don’t stay true to who you are.
MARY J. BLIGEI’ve just been growing right along. It’s painful, but it’s a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It’s like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you’re looking so hot.
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I’m hoping that my entrepreneurial side will have me at a place where I don’t have to do anything. That’s what I’m striving for.
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It’s OK showing yourself some love.
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Believe in yourself when nobody else does.
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It’s not just songs and glamour. It’s sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes… It’s life.
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Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.
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I’ve just been growing right along. It’s painful, but it’s a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It’s like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you’re looking so hot.
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I do consider myself part of black history.
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Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.
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There’s so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we’re going to get through it. Just be strong.
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As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.
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You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.
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Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.
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It’s challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don’t have the sustenance of love, because you’re being shipped around.
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It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don’t even understand what you’re reading in your contract.
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I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I’m seeing how knowledge can elevate you.
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