India.Arie Quotes
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There's another style of meditation that I've been doing since my mid-twenties. Tapping into your higher self to get a glimpse of yourself from the outside and get insight into what's going on in your life. I learned that from my godfather in my mid-twenties.
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I managed because of my mother. I managed because I'm strong. I managed the same way every other abuse survivor survives, you just do. So many people have been abused, it's not rare, it's a very common human experience, and we survive. Also, my music plays a big role in my thriving. Having an outlet, it really makes a difference.
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I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.
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I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer, many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side are musical, my grandparents sang and played blues piano. It's literally in my blood. My mother wrote an original song to teach me the days of the week.
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My body is beautiful and sacred, and I'm going to celebrate it.
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I'm African American, I'm a lot of other things, a musician and an artist. But that woman part holds the most pain for me. And therefore, obviously, the most lessons.
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When I perform, I'm just very much just being myself.
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If I'm not doing anything to make a change, then I'm responsible.
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It's not fair that people ignore AIDS in Africa because it's Africa. It's not fair.
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God is infinitely creative, and everyone's different, and everyone has a different path, a different lesson, a different song, a different face, a different voice.
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Back when I had a little, I thought that I needed a lot. A little was overrated, but a lot was a little too complicated. See, zero didn't satisfy me. A million didn't make me happy. That's when I learned a lesson that it's all about your perception....THERE'S HOPE. It doesn't cost a thing to smile. You don't have to pay to laugh. Better thank God for that.
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Any time someone is passionate about a cause, it's because they want to heal something inside of themselves.
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If you create the game, then you create the rules.
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I'm passionate about the empowerment and healing of girls and women. Where I do the most work in that regard is in my songwriting.
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Break the Shell”: “Child, it’s time to break the shell Life’s gonna hurt but it’s meant to be felt You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself You cannot fly until you break the shell.
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Go on and love yourself, cause everything's gonna be alright.
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Some people just don't like to be their self. I'm always looking, analyzing myself.
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In the music industry it's just you're either Black or white, and this is the box you get put in.
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A person's either responsible for themselves or we're all responsible for each other.
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Eating is not one of the things that I do now to deal with pain, because I don't ever want to do that. But I isolate myself, that's what I do.
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I'm a Libra, I always have two sides of everything.
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Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken.
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The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.
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If you give me half a chance. I'll prove this to you. I will be patient, kind, faithful and true.
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The difference between living and feeling alive, is using your fear as fuel to fly.
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When I look in the mirror and the only one there is me Every freckle on my face is where it’s suppose to be And I know my creator didn’t make no mistakes on me My feet, my thighs, my Lips, my eyes, I’m loving what I see
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Over the years, I was doing what I loved to do, which is my music. But it was always a bit distorted, because I was doing the music in the way other people around me were telling me it should be done.
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When I think about the cause I'm most passionate about, it's all in my music all the time, because I'm always singing about the empowerment of women. Always, even when it's a little love song - it's still about the empowerment of women and this high spiritual nature of love. It's the biggest healer ever.
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You're beautiful like a flower More valuable than a diamond You are powerful like a fire... There is nothing in the world that you cannot do When you believe in you, who are beautiful Yeah you, who are brilliant Yeah you, who are powerful Yeah you, who are resilient
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The only thing constant in the world is change, that's why today I take life as it comes.
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