Mary J. Blige Quotes
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When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward.
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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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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 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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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 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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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 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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My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me.
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There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.
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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 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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I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.
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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 have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'
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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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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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I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.
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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 striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on 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 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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I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.
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I do consider myself part of black history.