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And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

Lauryn Hill

Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin’ at all.
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Deep Faith Love Myself
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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Attitude Force Myself Willing
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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Choice Defend Light
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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Ability Children Education Love Myself Opportunity Travel World
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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Improvement Light Live Space Touch Yourself
Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.
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Act God Gratitude Result
You might win some, but you just lost one.
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Lost Oneself Win Yourself
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
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Change Father Freedom Myself Reason
It’s silly when girls sell their souls because it’s in.
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Sell Soul Stupidity
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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Friendship God Lie People Thinking True
I believe God will make a way.
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Believe God Myself One Liner
Reality is easy. It’s deception that’s the hard work.
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Easy Reality
I was hopeless, now I’m on Hope Road.
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Hope Inspirational Myself
Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.
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Kindness Myself Patience
I have inner peace. It’s a different person.
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Different Myself Peace Person
Let optimists rule the world.
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Rule World
I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.
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Beginning Comfortable Identity Myself
Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.
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Different Place
If you love something and if you’re committed and diligent – the things happen!
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Commitment Love Yourself
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.
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Family Goodness Joy Love Money Myself Time
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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Opportunity Yourself
Love is an incredible thing but we don’t know love like we should. Unconditional love we don’t know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.
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Character Love Person Philosophy
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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Black Comfortable Gift Insecurity Myself Thinking Young
The only way to know is to Live, Learn, and Grow.
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Growth Learning Live
We’ve got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.
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Music Protection
I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That’s too much work.
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Character Myself People
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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Endurance Kindness Myself Patience Suffering

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

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And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

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