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The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.
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Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
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My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.
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I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.
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I mean thats a big part of our existence here on earth, the personal relationship we have with the person that we love, with the person that we make love to, with the person that we share our lives with. We expect a lot of things back from our loved one, and the lesson is to accept and not expect.
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When you're performing, you're creating a moment.
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And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.
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I don't know why, it's just what I feel inside, the thoughts that I sing about. It's just my truth. Sometimes my emotions can be mistaken for messages.
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What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.
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Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.
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Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.
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I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
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We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.
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I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
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I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.
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Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
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A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.
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Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.
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Discipline is important, we need to be more focused on what we put into our bodies.
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I remember when I signed with Kedar Entertainment through Universal Records. It was my first record deal and it's the one I still have now. At that time, there had been a couple of opportunities I was almost given, but at the last minute the giver came back and told me it couldn't happen.
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The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.
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I'm a recovering undercover over-lover.
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If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.
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I really can't say what inspires me the most, because I'm inspired by just about everything. My feelings and relationships, my family, Scooby-Doo. Opinion of my work. Everything. Not just one thing.
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