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 HILLLet me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.
More Lauryn Hill Quotes
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Never underestimate those who you scar.
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I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.
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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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What was freely given to me, I freely give.
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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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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’ve got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.
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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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Let optimists rule the world.
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Loving you is like a Song I replay every 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds of every Day.
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Tomorrow, our seeds will grow. All we need is dedication.
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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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It’s more important to be righteous than to be right.
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I get really afraid of those little comforts, those things that make us feel like we did something great, because I’ve done nothing. I’ve done nothing. I mean that sincerely.
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The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.
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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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The sweetest thing I’ve ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone.
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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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If you love something and if you’re committed and diligent – the things happen!
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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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I believe God will make a way.
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Love is an incredible thing but we don’t know love like we should. Unconditional love we don’t know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.
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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 am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That’s too much work.
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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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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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