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When 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 Hill

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
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 am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.
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Beginning Comfortable Identity Myself
I have inner peace. It’s a different person.
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Different Myself Peace Person
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
Let optimists rule the world.
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Rule World
Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.
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Black Love Thinking
Loving you is like a Song I replay every 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds of every Day.
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Love Song 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 can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness
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Generosity Happiness Love Myself
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
Wisdom is better than silver and gold.
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Deep Gold Wisdom
We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
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Expectation People
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
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
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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Art Healing Help Inspirational Opportunity Teaching Touch

When 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.

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When 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.

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