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Lauryn Hill

I was hopeless, now I’m on Hope Road.
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Hope Inspirational Myself
What was freely given to me, I freely give.
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Freedom Generosity
The sweetest thing I’ve ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone.
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Kiss Myself
Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.
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Different Place
If I’d known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.
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People White
Sometimes we all need to take time and give thanks.
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Need Thankful Time
Never underestimate those who you scar.
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Scars Yourself
I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.
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Dedication Myself Need Passionate People
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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Alone Comfortable Myself Need
God teaches me about reality, so when he tells me to do something, I do, because I’m led to.
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God Himself Reality Teaching
Let optimists rule the world.
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Rule World
Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.
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Chance Opportunity Right
It’s emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
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Emotional Love Ourselves People Truth
Loving you is like a Song I replay every 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds of every Day.
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Love Song Yourself
See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
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Fantasy Myself Need People Reality
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
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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Blessing Experience Myself Rain Time
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
It’s silly when girls sell their souls because it’s in.
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Sell Soul Stupidity
Everyday is another chance to get things right.
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Chance Right
Wisdom is better than silver and gold.
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Deep Gold Wisdom
Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.
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Black Love Thinking
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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Focus Heart Ourselves People Thinking
Tomorrow, our seeds will grow. All we need is dedication.
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Dedication Growth Need Ourselves
You don’t know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It’s all in the practice.
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Art Easy Practice Yourself
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 less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.
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Freedom Myself

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