Lauryn Hill Quotes
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I'm a mess but God is dealing with me every day. That's what all these songs are about: problem, cause and solution.
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Wisdom is better than silver and gold
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If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!
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With the things that I love, I tried to put a couple seeds, a bunch of seeds in the ground and see what sprung up. Sometimes it was acting and sometimes it was music. But whatever it was I continued to plant.
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I knew his life deserved a chance/But everybody told me to be smart/Look at your career they said/'Lauren, baby use your head'/But instead I chose to use my heart.
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I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.
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I keep letting you back in,how can I explain myself,as painful as this thing has been,I just can't be with no one else.
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Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it's not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form.
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I know there are certain gifts that each of us have. The gifts you don't have to worry about so much, because God gave them to us. It's the living, it's the life, it's the now.
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I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.
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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 had to learn the hard way some really important life lessons. There was really no one there to say, don't do this or don't do that.
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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 need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.
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Hypocrites always wanna play innocent
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Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.
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Tell me who I've got to be, to get some reciprocity.
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I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth. Who won't accept deception instead of what is truth. It seems we lose the game, before we even start to play. Who made these rules? We're so confused. Easily led astray.
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Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got
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If they only showed Love, they would own love.
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A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts.
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My mother gave me a piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. The correction was the meat, the substance. And then she would sandwich that, sandwich that with another piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. That was very important in shaping and molding our morality, our understanding of ourselves, making sure that we didn’t think we were better than or less than anyone, feeling no more worthy or no less worthy than anyone else.
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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've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.