Quotes

What she says inspires us. What she sings touches us.
Here are some quotes. From Lauryn herself.

"Some kid had heard that I didn’t want white people to buy my records. And that really, really hurt me a great deal because I really think my music is universal. And I’d been everywhere and I had fans everywhere. But because of some rumor that some radio personality chose to say on his radio show, something they’d never seen ot never heard themselves, just a rumor. There were a lot of people that I thought we had related and all of a sudden they felt they couldn’t relate at all. And I found that people tried to misconstrue the things that I’d said and make them sound like I had some sort of racist thoughts. And they were very hurtful comments to me, because I’m a very universal person and I think it’s our diffrences that makes us dope."

"You can have everything that you need, and what you need does turn to what you want"

"People often don’t understand how deep Black music’s roots really are."

"What bugs me is the fact that men never have to defend having children. Women are always asked ’How is this going to affect your career?’ If anything, having a growing family will make me even more motivated to create good music."

"Wherever I go, low or high places, I have to represent the truth. And you know when you find enlightenment one the light gets turnes on you realize that you’ve been in the dark for a long time. And when the light was turned on in my life I realized that I had been in the dark, and that my entire perpose on Earth was to be a survant. And I want to, I want to let you people know that it is not a burdanat to love Him and to represten Him, and to be who you are, as fly, and as hot, and as whatever, and still love God and surve Him. It’s not a contradiction."

"Women tend to take care of others - children, husband, family - before they think about themselves. We need to learn to take care of our bodies. We need to check our family history for cancer. We need to check our breasts, eat right, and nurture our spiritual selves. We need to take care of ourselves so that we can take care of each other."

"It’s funny how money change a situation"
-Lost Ones-

"Now thell me your philosophy
On exactly what an artist sould be
Should ther be someone with prosperity
And no concept of reality?
Now, who you know without any flaws
That lives above the spirutal laws
And does anything they feel just because
There’s always someone there who’ll aplaud"
-Superstar-

"It seems we lose the game
Before we even start to play
Who made these rules?
We’re so confused
Easily led astray"
-Everything Is Everything-

"You see I loved hard once, but the love wasn't returned
I found out the man I'd die for, he wasn't even concerned
And time it turned,
He tried to burn me like a perm
Though my eyes saw the deception, My heart wouldn't let me learn
From um, some, dumb woman, was I,
And everytime he'd lie, he would cry and inside I'd die.
My heart must have died a thousand deaths
Compared myself to Toni Braxton thought I'd never catch my breath
Nothing left, he stole the heart beating from my chest
I tried to call the cops, that type of thief you can't arrest
Pain suppressed, will lead to cardiac arrest
Diamonds deserve diamonds, but he convinced me I was worth less
when my peoples would protest,
I told them mind their business, cause my shit was complex
More than just the sex
I was blessed, but couldn't feel it like when I was caressed
I'd spend nights clutching my breasts overwhelmed by God's test
I was God's best contemplating death with a Gillette
But no man is ever worth the paradise manifest "
-Manifest-

"I'm bout to change the focus from the richest to the brokest"
-Final Hour-

"I may have wisdom and knowledge on earth,
but if I speak wrong then what is it worth,
see what we now know is nothing compared to the love that was shown when our lives was spared"
-Tell Him-

"How you gon win, when you ain't right within."
-Doo Wop (That Thing)-

"Why every Indian wanna be the chief? Feed a man 'til he's full and he still want beef
Give me grief, try to tief off my piece
Why for you to increase, I must decrease?
If I treat you kindly does it mean that I'm weak?
You hear me speak and think I won't take it to the streets
I know enough cats that don't turn the other cheek, but I try to keep it civilized like Menelik
And other African czars observing stars with war scars
Get yours in this capitalistic system"
-Forgive Them Father-
"My world it moved so fast today
The past it seemed so far away And life squeezed so tight that I can't breathe,
And everytime I've tried to be
What someone else thought of me
So caught up I was unable to achieve,
But deep in my heart I know the answer it was in me
And I made up my mind to define my own destiny"
-The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill-

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