Lauryn Hill Quotes
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When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.
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I wouldn't try to put myself in a box or put God in a box.
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To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.
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Now the skies could fall Not even if my boss should call The world it seems so very small 'Cause nothing even matters at all
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I'm in a very close-knit, very, very tight family. My grandmother had 13 kids, so we had a lot of family like 50, 60 grandchildren and we all lived in Jersey, relatively in the same area. So every time there was something, my entire family was there. And I just believed everybody's family was like that.
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It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
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I have inner peace. It's a different person.
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How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again
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People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.
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I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness
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From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.
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Our podium is the music. It's really important that we stay focused, because things become misconstrued in the media.
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As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.
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Loving you is like a Song I replay every 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds of every Day.
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I don't want to be religious, I want to be spiritual. Anybody can be religious. Some people jog religiously. You don't want to be that, you want to be spiritual. You want to have a relationship with God as opposed to doing what everyone else does.
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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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From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
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Everything is everything What is meant to be, will be After winter, must come spring Change, it comes eventually
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Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
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How you gonna win when you ain't right within?
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You might win some, but you just lost one.
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I hope that by people seeing the result of freedom that they'll want some, too.
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You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.
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Let optimists rule the world.