Mary J. Blige Quotes
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I listen to gospel music.
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I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.
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I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.
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One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.
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I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.
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There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.
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Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do.
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I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.
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Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations.
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Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.
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I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.
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You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.
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I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.
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I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.
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My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me.
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Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.
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I do consider myself part of black history.
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By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.
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God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.
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I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'
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I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.
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When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.
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I had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not waver on who I am. Know who I am, know what I want, and know it. Not waver on it and be secure in that. And I still struggle with it. But I really... I can't be moved. You can't move me, and that all comes with loving myself, and I'm like my best buddy.
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'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.