Lauryn Hill Quotes
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I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.
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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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Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ass because you think it's a trend.
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See no one loves you more than me...and no one ever will
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If I should fall asleep and death takes me away, Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay.
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You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.
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There are a lot of young black girls who I meet in my travels who don't have a lot of self-esteem. So if I communicate to them that they're beautiful, no white person should find fault in that. It doesn't mean that young white girls aren't beautiful, because they are just as beautiful.
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I do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.
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Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.
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I play my enemies like a game of chess
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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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If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.
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God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.
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I know you don't wanna hear my opinion, There come many paths and you must choose one. And if you don't change then the rain soon come. See, you might win some, but you just lost one.
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Life is continued work. It's constant learning. The whole concept of retirement I don't even buy into. We should constantly be working. Maybe not physically working, but we could be spiritually, emotionally working toward bettering ourselves and bettering the lives of others around us.
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Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.
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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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Now I may have faith, to make mountains fall. But if I lack love, then I am nothin' at all.
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My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.
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Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend.
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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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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.
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Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies
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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.