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 HILLThe only way to know is to Live, Learn, and Grow.
More Lauryn Hill Quotes
-
-
This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL -
We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that’s how we improve the world around us, by working within us.
LAURYN HILL -
It’s emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
LAURYN HILL -
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.
LAURYN HILL -
We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
LAURYN HILL -
See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
LAURYN HILL -
We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.
LAURYN HILL -
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.
LAURYN HILL -
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.
LAURYN HILL -
I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness
LAURYN HILL -
Nobody’s going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?
LAURYN HILL -
Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.
LAURYN HILL -
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.
LAURYN HILL -
You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.
LAURYN HILL -
Anything that is not growing is dead.
LAURYN HILL -
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.
LAURYN HILL -
Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you’ve just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.
LAURYN HILL -
I consider myself a crayon. I may not be your favorite color but one day you’ll need me to complete your picture.
LAURYN HILL -
I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That’s too much work.
LAURYN HILL -
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.
LAURYN HILL -
And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.
LAURYN HILL -
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.
LAURYN HILL -
See no one loves you more than me and no one ever will.
LAURYN HILL -
I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can’t hold me in these chains. I’ll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin’ my condition is the reason I must change
LAURYN HILL -
The only way to know is to Live, Learn, and Grow.
LAURYN HILL -
Never underestimate those who you scar.
LAURYN HILL