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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

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.
LAURYN HILL

Black Comfortable Gift Insecurity Myself Thinking Young
I consider myself a crayon. I may not be your favorite color but one day you’ll need me to complete your picture.
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Art Color Deep Favorite Myself Photograph
I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness
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Generosity Happiness Love Myself
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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Art Believe Excitement Suffering Young 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
I was hopeless, now I’m on Hope Road.
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Hope Inspirational Myself
Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.
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Black Love Thinking
The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.
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Freedom Myself
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
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
Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
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Attention Breathe God Yourself
I think everything happens in time. There’s a time for everything. There’s a time to be in a group, and there’s a time to be solo.
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Myself Thinking Time
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
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 think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.
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Attraction Music Myself Passion People Thinking
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
Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.
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Honesty Maintain Relationship
Tomorrow, our seeds will grow. All we need is dedication.
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Dedication Growth Need Ourselves
Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.
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Kindness Myself Patience
You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.
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Eyes Money Power Yourself
See no one loves you more than me and no one ever will.
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Love Oneself See Willing Yourself
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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Focus Lesson Life Music Myself World
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
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
We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
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Life Planning
Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.
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Different Place
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

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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