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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.

Lauryn Hill

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 HILL

Black Comfortable Gift Insecurity Myself Thinking Young
Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies.
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Death Ourselves Willing
You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.
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Improvement Light Live Space Touch Yourself
Wisdom is better than silver and gold.
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Deep Gold Wisdom
I get out, I get out of all your boxes.
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Limitation Myself Yourself
I find, even though it’s raining, I just go outside. I look outside and I’m just so blessed to see it and to experience it, because for such a long time I was just indoors.
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Blessing Experience Myself Rain Time
If I’d known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.
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People White
I consider myself a crayon. I may not be your favorite color but one day you’ll need me to complete your picture.
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Art Color Deep Favorite Myself Photograph
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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Art Healing Help Inspirational Opportunity Teaching Touch
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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Afraid Comfortable Feeling Myself
Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.
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Chance Opportunity Right
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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Family Goodness Joy Love Money Myself Time
God teaches me about reality, so when he tells me to do something, I do, because I’m led to.
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God Himself Reality Teaching
Reality is easy. It’s deception that’s the hard work.
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Easy Reality
Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin’ at all.
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Deep Faith Love Myself
Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.
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Act God Gratitude Result

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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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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