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Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

Lauryn Hill

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
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Learning Oppression Thinking Time
I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.
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Dedication Myself Need Passionate People
Never underestimate those who you scar.
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Scars 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 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
We’ve got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.
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Music Protection
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
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
The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.
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Freedom Myself
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
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
I get out, I get out of all your boxes.
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Limitation Myself Yourself
Consequence is no coincidence.
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Deep One Liner Result
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
My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.
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Escape Live Myself Success
To me that’s a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.
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Encouragement Enjoyment Help Love Myself Reflection

Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

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