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 HILLAnything that is not growing is dead.
More Lauryn Hill Quotes
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How you gon’ win when you ain’t right within. Uh uh come again.
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Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem!
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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?
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I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That’s too much work.
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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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Wisdom is better than silver and gold.
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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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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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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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If I’d known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.
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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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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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The sweetest thing I’ve ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone.
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God teaches me about reality, so when he tells me to do something, I do, because I’m led to.
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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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