"It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves."
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Lauryn Hill quotes (page 3 of 10)
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"Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got"
"The only help I need to live, is unprofessional. The only wealth I have to give, is not material. And if you need much more than that, I'm not available."
"It's more important to be righteous than to be right."
"Anything that is not growing is dead."
"We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are."
"I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change"
"That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in."
"Sometimes we all need to take time and give thanks."
"Consequence is no coincidence."
"My mother gave me a piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. The correction was the meat, the substance. And then she would sandwich that, sandwich that with another piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. That was very important in shaping and molding our morality, our understanding of ourselves, making sure that we didn’t think we were better than or less than anyone, feeling no more worthy or no less worthy than anyone else."
"As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving."
"Tell me who I've got to be, to get some reciprocity"
"You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour."
"Tomorrow, our seeds will grow. All we need is dedication."
"I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic."
"For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda."
"Everyday is another chance to get things right."
"We call ourselves creators and we just copy."
"The sweetest thing I've ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone, the soft caress of happiness, the way you walk, your style of dress, I wish I didn't get so weak, oh baby just to hear you speak, makes me argue just to see how much your in love with me"