Jill Scott Quotes

One of the reasons my ex-husband and I broke up is that he stopped eating my food.

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• That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.

  

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  • Time
  • Music

• For me, hair is an accoutrement. Hair is jewelry. It's an accessory.

  

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  • Hair
  • Jewelry

• I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.

  

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  • Believe
  • Different
  • Relationship

• God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.

  

  Jill Scott
  • God
  • Present

• There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself. And that's kind of what happened with me - I realized, in a few places, I was going down the wrong path.

  

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  • Path

• For anyone who feels they are overwhelmed by their job, or maybe they take their job too seriously or are working too hard, I say go to a safari, particularly the Okavango Delta, and just be humbled.

  

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  • Job

• I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

  

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• I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung.

  

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  • Time
  • Kids
  • Words

• Our minds do understand that people of all races find genuine love in many places. We dig that the world is full of amazing options.

  

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  • People
  • World
  • Amazing

• It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

  

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  • Song

• When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.

  

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  • People
  • Famous

• Nothing has gotten me out of Philadelphia. I moved 20 minutes away from Philly. That's about it.

  

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• I'm going to keep it real gully with you; the first two months, I wanted to give him back. I expected someone to come and save me because after you have the baby, nobody cares about you anymore. Nobody cares if you sleep, nobody cares if you eat. It's just you and this all-consuming thingy!

  

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  • Real
  • Sleep
  • Baby

• My intention is to make music that you can enjoy at all times.

  

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  • Music

• The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in!

  

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  • Up
  • Growing
  • Grandmother

• There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself.

  

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• I think human beings will always still really enjoy using our imaginations, and 'Fringe' allows you to do that. It's slightly scary and believable. There just might be an alternate universe. There just might be people on the other side that are like us, living a different life.

  

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  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought 'The Wiz' soundtrack was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. It was my first record and you had Michael Jackson, Ted Ross, Nipsey Russell and Diana Ross on it. I even took it to show and tell in third grade!

  

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  • Amazing

• Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work with. He is fun. The entire time, he would go in and out of different characters, just for the fun of it. Awesome energy.

  

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  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.

  

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  • Color
  • Grandmother

• I've been around the world and I've had bras made in different places, and each time I'm experiencing the same troubles: the painful shoulders, the underwire cutting into my flesh.

  

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  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

  

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  • Time
  • Power

• I am more spiritual than religious.

  

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  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• My heart and prayers go out to all single moms because it's tough, and I can't imagine any teenager dealing with a baby and all those hormones raging.

  

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  • Heart
  • Single
  • Baby