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 HILLWe 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 HILLWhenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies.
LAURYN HILLEvery 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.
LAURYN HILLWhen 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.
LAURYN HILLThink black love, think universal love. Just think love.
LAURYN HILLI 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 HILLYou 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.
LAURYN HILLIn 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.
LAURYN HILLIf I’d known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.
LAURYN HILLEverybody 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 HILLLet optimists rule the world.
LAURYN HILLI am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That’s too much work.
LAURYN HILLHow you gon’ win when you ain’t right within. Uh uh come again.
LAURYN HILLConsequence is no coincidence.
LAURYN HILLGod teaches me about reality, so when he tells me to do something, I do, because I’m led to.
LAURYN HILLI have inner peace. It’s a different person.
LAURYN HILL