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If I’d known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

Lauryn Hill

Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.
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Chance Opportunity Right
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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Focus Heart Ourselves People Thinking
The sweetest thing I’ve ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone.
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Kiss Myself
If you love something and if you’re committed and diligent – the things happen!
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Commitment Love Yourself
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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Endurance Kindness Myself Patience Suffering
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.
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Black Comfortable Gift Insecurity Myself Thinking Young
From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
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Learning Oppression Thinking Time
Reality is easy. It’s deception that’s the hard work.
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Easy Reality
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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Ability Children Education Love Myself Opportunity Travel World
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
Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody’s throat. For those who don’t want it, I have nothing to defend.
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Choice Defend Light
Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.
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Different Place
Sometimes we all need to take time and give thanks.
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Need Thankful Time
I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That’s too much work.
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Character Myself People
Everyday is another chance to get things right.
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Chance Right
To me that’s a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.
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Encouragement Enjoyment Help Love Myself Reflection

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