"Our podium is the music. It's really important that we stay focused, because things become misconstrued in the media."
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"You say, Wait a minute, God, you spared me from a slave job in an office, and now I have a slave job onstage. I am not on that clock no more."
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"As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society."
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"Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process."
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"I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more."
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"I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God."
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"I know there are certain gifts that each of us have. The gifts you don't have to worry about so much, because God gave them to us. It's the living, it's the life, it's the now."
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"Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it's good to be reintroduced."
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"I believe God will make a way."
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"You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home."
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"Let optimists rule the world."
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"In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out."
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"It's funny - more people talk about my 'babe-dom' now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I'm a role model in hot pants now. That's cool!"
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"So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone And defecating on your microphone."
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"As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will."
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"The only way to know is to Live, Learn, and Grow"
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"My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent."
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"How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again"
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"I find, even though it's raining, I just go outside. I look outside and I'm just so blessed to see it and to experience it, because for such a long time I was just indoors."
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"What was freely given to me, I freely give."
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