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I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.
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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 me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.
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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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I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness.
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Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it's good to be reintroduced.
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Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
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Wow, this is so amazing. I thank God. This is crazy because this is hip-hop music.
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I'm trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and caring friend, a responsible person. And every day is another opportunity for me to be successful at that.
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And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.
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So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone And defecating on your microphone.
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I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it.
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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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Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ass because you think it's a trend.
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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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In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.
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With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation', it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.
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Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.
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We call ourselves creators and we just copy.
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I think the work ethic that was established in my family was something very important. If you plant the seed, if you sow sparingly and reap sparingly. If you sow in abundance you'll reap in abundance.
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My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.
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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.
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Never underestimate those who you scar.
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As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.