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My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.

Lauryn Hill

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
See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
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Fantasy Myself Need People Reality
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
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
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
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
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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Help Live Material Money Myself Need
Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies.
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Death Ourselves Willing
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
Everyday is another chance to get things right.
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Chance Right
My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.
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Escape Live Myself Success
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
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
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
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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Deep Improvement Ourselves World
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.
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Battle Love Scars Simplicity Yourself

My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.

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