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 HILLEveryday is another chance to get things right.
More Lauryn Hill Quotes
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And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.
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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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Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.
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We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
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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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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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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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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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See no one loves you more than me and no one ever will.
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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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I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.
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Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.
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You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.
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In 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.
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You might win some, but you just lost one.
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Reality is easy. It’s deception that’s the hard work.
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Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies.
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The only help I need to live, is unprofessional. The only wealth I have to give, is not material. And if you need much more than that, I’m not available.
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Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem!
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If you love something and if you’re committed and diligent – the things happen!
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I believe God will make a way.
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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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We call ourselves creators and we just copy.
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Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.
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We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
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