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 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.
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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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Reality is easy. It’s deception that’s the hard work.
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Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin’ at all.
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We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
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I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.
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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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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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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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Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem!
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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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I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don’t have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.
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Consequence is no coincidence.
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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.
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My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.
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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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Miscommunication leads to complication.
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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 am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That’s too much work.
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Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.
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How you gon’ win when you ain’t right within. Uh uh come again.
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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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You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.
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I get out, I get out of all your boxes.
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Wisdom is better than silver and gold.
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You might win some, but you just lost one.
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I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness
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