I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.
LAURYN HILLLet me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I’ll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got.
More Lauryn Hill Quotes
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I believe God will make a way.
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It’s emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
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It could all be so simple, but you’d rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars.
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Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.
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We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
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Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world’s concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life.
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I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.
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I think everything happens in time. There’s a time for everything. There’s a time to be in a group, and there’s a time to be solo.
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This life is a process of learning.
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In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.
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When you’re young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I’ve graduated from that school.
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I have inner peace. It’s a different person.
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Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.
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If you love something and if you’re committed and diligent – the things happen!
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.
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Consequence is no coincidence.
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As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.
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A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what’s in our hearts.
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I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.
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Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
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Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.
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Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I’ll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got.
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It’s more important to be righteous than to be right.
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A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too, So what makes you think, that they won’t lie to you.
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I get really afraid of those little comforts, those things that make us feel like we did something great, because I’ve done nothing. I’ve done nothing. I mean that sincerely.
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In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time.
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