Lauryn Hill Quotes

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.

I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness

Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.

The sweetest thing I've ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone.

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.

I know you don't wanna hear my opinion, There come many paths and you must choose one. And if you don't change then the rain soon come. See, you might win some, but you just lost one.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes.

We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.

Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

I get really afraid of those little comforts, those things that make us feel like we did something great, because I've done nothing. I've done nothing. I mean that sincerely.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

This life is a process of learning.

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.

I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.

I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.

God teaches me about reality, so when he tells me to do something, I do, because I'm led to.

I had an economic system imposed on me.

Hip-Hop started out in the heart

Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.

Hypocrites always wanna play innocent

Never underestimate those who you scar.

When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.

I knew his life deserved a chance/But everybody told me to be smart/Look at your career they said/Lauren, baby use your head/But instead I chose to use my heart.

We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.

God said, All right, I'm gonna show you. I made you what you are. God takes care of me. I'm just the one who delivers the message.

I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.

I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else.

Now the skies could fall Not even if my boss should call The world it seems so very small 'Cause nothing even matters at all

From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!

It's funny how money change a situation.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

I ran very fast in the wrong direction.

If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.

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.

Our podium is the music. It's really important that we stay focused, because things become misconstrued in the media.

Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!

God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.