Lauryn Hill Quotes
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Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.
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Love and this close-knit family structure really helped to give me the confidence. To know that you have family to go back to is a help. It doesn't always happen biologically. Sometimes God gives you family in other forms, but I was very blessed. I have a very strong biological family.
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Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it's good to be reintroduced.
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We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.
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I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.
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I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me.
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I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"
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I got Moxie, I'm so damn foxy Industry try to block me like cops and paparazzi.
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I play my enemies like a game of chess
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Let optimists rule the world.
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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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Now don't you understand man universal law What you throw out comes back to you, star Never underestimate those who you scar Cause karma, karma, karma comes back to you hard
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The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.
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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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Tell me who I've got to be, to get some reciprocity
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For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.
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If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence - yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.
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I had an economic system imposed on me.
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Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.
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It's funny - more people talk about my 'babe-dom' now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I'm a role model in hot pants now. That's cool!
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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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I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.
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I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.
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I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.
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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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I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness.
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I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.
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The honor to me has less to do with the award. To me that translates in the relationship that I have with the audience, and if my music is helpful to them, that's the award.
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I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing.
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You might win some, but you just lost one.
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