Mary J. Blige Quotes
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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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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 can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that.
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It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.
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There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.
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I do consider myself part of black history.
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I listen to gospel music.
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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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I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.
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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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I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.
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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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You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.
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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 can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'
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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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Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.
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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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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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My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me.
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I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.
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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'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'