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.
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.
More Lauryn Hill Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.
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Anything that is not growing is dead.
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Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
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See no one loves you more than me and no one ever will.
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Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.
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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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It’s emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
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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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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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Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin’ at all.
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