It could all be so simple, but you’d rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars.
LAURYN HILLIt could all be so simple, but you’d rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars.
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.
LAURYN HILLWe don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
LAURYN HILLFrom the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
LAURYN HILLIn my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.
LAURYN HILLAnything that is not growing is dead.
LAURYN HILLConsequence is no coincidence.
LAURYN HILLI 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.
LAURYN HILLNever underestimate those who you scar.
LAURYN HILLIt’s more important to be righteous than to be right.
LAURYN HILLEvery 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.
LAURYN HILLLet optimists rule the world.
LAURYN HILLMy concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.
LAURYN HILLWhenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies.
LAURYN HILLTo 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.
LAURYN HILLIf you love something and if you’re committed and diligent – the things happen!
LAURYN HILL