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 HILLNever underestimate those who you scar.
More Lauryn Hill Quotes
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The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.
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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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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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Hypocrites always wanna play innocent.
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My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.
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Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.
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Consequence is no coincidence.
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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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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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I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness
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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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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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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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Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you’ve just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.
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Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem!
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