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People Need To Understand That The Lauryn Hill They Were Exposed To In The Beginning Was All That Was Allowed In That Arena At The Time. I Had To Step Away For The Sake Of The Machine. I Was Being Way Too Compromised. I Felt Uncomfortable Having To Smile In Someone's Face When I Really Didn't Like Them Or Know Them Well Enough To Like.

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People Need To Understand That The Lauryn Hill They Were Exposed To In The Beginning Was All That Was Allowed In That Arena At The Time. I Had To Step Away For The Sake Of The Machine. I Was Being Way Too Compromised. I Felt Uncomfortable Having To Smile In Someone's Face When I Really Didn't Like Them Or Know Them Well Enough To Like.

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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.

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.

Every Time That God Navigates My Ship, There's Nothing Cerebral Going On. There's Very Little Thought. It's Almost As If I Have The Directions. Every Time I Try To Do It Myself, I'm Conjuring Up My Own Concoction And Trying.

Let’s Love Ourselves, Then We Can’t Fail, To Make A Better Situation. Tomorrow, Our Seeds Will Grow, All We Need Is Dedication!

This Life Is A Process Of Learning.

And What You Need Ironically. Will Turn Out What You Want To Be. If You Just Let It.

My Concept Of Successful Living Is Escaping The Matrix, As We've Talked About. It Has Very Little To Do With What People Think Success Is. I Actually Feel Successful Right Now, Even Though I Don't Have An Album Out, Or A Video Or A Song On The Radio, Because I'm Trying To Be Obedient To His Will.

Just Because I Have A Guitar, It Doesn't Mean That Changes Me. I Still Rhyme, I Still Sing.

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In My Family, There Was Not An Abundance Of Wealth, But There Was An Abundance Of Love. So There Was Always Humor, And There Was Joy And There Was Comfort And There Was This Environment Just To Have A Good Time.

Abundance Of Love

Tell Me Who I've Got To Be, To Get Some Reciprocity

Over-commercialization And Its Resulting Restrictions And Limitations Can Be Very Damaging And Distorting To The Inherent Nature Of The Individual. I Did Not Deliberately Abandon My Fans, Nor Did I Deliberately Abandon Any Responsibilities.

If I'd Known White People Were Going To Buy My Last Album, I Never Would Have Recorded It.

Every Time Truth Comes We Hate It, Because It's Coming Against Our Ego. Are You Going To Let The Ego Come Between You And This Person You Love?

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.

Love Is An Incredible Thing But We Don't Know Love Like We Should. Unconditional Love We Don't Know It Because If A Person Stops Stimulating Us, We Stop Loving Them.

Unconditional Love

We Were All Crazy About Music And Almost All The Money We Had, We Spent For Equipment.

I Don't Want To Be Religious, I Want To Be Spiritual. Anybody Can Be Religious. Some People Jog Religiously. You Don't Want To Be That, You Want To Be Spiritual. You Want To Have A Relationship With God As Opposed To Doing What Everyone Else Does.

Sometimes We All Need To Take Time And Give Thanks.

See Fantasy Is What People Want, But Reality Is What They Need. And I Just Retired From The Fantasy Part.

We've Got To Protect The Music And Make Sure It Never Gets Exploited.

We Should Always Be Aspiring To Know More, And To Better Ourselves, And To Improve Ourselves. To Improve Ourselves, Because That's How We Improve The World Around Us, By Working Within Us.

We Think The Man With The Best Rap Will Protect And Save Us, But It's Not Usually That Way. Love Is Something Deeper And Purer.

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.

I Can Give Away Everything I Posses, But Am Without Love, And I Have No Happiness

Reality Is Easy. It's Deception That's The Hard Work.

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!

Everybody Has A Choice. I Am Not Here To Shove My Light Down Everybody's Throat. For Those Who Don't Want It, I Have Nothing To Defend.

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.

Everyday Is Another Chance To Get Things Right.

So While You're Imitating Al Capone, I'll Be Nina Simone And Defecating On Your Microphone.

The Sweetest Thing I've Ever Known Was Like The Kiss On The Collarbone.

I Got Into Direct Confrontation With Everybody I Love.

I Was Unhappy With My Life. I Had Acquired Everything I Thought I Wanted, Only To Find Out, This Is It?

I Like A Brother That Cuts To The Chase.

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.

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.

There Are A Lot Of Young Black Girls Who I Meet In My Travels Who Don't Have A Lot Of Self-esteem. So If I Communicate To Them That They're Beautiful, No White Person Should Find Fault In That. It Doesn't Mean That Young White Girls Aren't Beautiful, Because They Are Just As Beautiful.

I Used To Play My Records Aloud Until One Night My Mother Was Like, "this Is Too Loud. I'm Not Having It," And So I Put On Headphones. But The Headphones Didn't Stretch All The Way To My Bed From The Record Player, So I Had To Sleep On The Floor In Order To Hear The Records. I Slept On The Floor Right Next To The Record Player Until I Was Probably 19 Years Old.

It Could All Be So Simple, But You'd Rather Make It Hard, Loving You Is Like A Battle, And We Both End Up With Scars

You Could Get The Money, You Can Get The Power, But Keep Your Eyes On The Final Hour.

From The First Time Someone Says, Who Do You Think You Are? We Learn How To Repress.

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.

I Think Everything Happens In Time. There's A Time For Everything. There's A Time To Be In A Group, And There's A Time To Be Solo.

I Didn't Have That Intense Ambition To Be A Musician Or An Actress. I Just Enjoyed It. And By Enjoying It, Because I Loved It, It Enabled Me To Get Better At What I Was Doing, Because There Was A Love Behind It.

If You Love Something And If You're Committed And Diligent - The Things Happen!

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

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.

I Had To Confront My Fears And Master My Every Demonic Thought About Inferiority, Insecurity, Or The Fear Of Being Black, Young, And Gifted In This Western Culture.

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Loving You Is Like A Song I Replay Every 3 Minutes And 30 Seconds Of Every Day.

For A While, The Genre Seemed To Be Just About Sex And Crime. Rappers Are Storytellers; The Stories Don't Need To Be True!

We Call Ourselves Creators And We Just Copy.

I Believe God Will Make A Way.

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How You Gon' Win When You Ain't Right Within. Uh Uh Come Again

Every Day Is A Lesson In Focus For Me, And Not Buying Into The World's Concept Of What You Have To Be. I Really Try Every Day To Be Individual And Not Just In My Style Or My Look Or My Music, But In My Approach To Life.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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Whenever We Submit Our Will To Someone Else’s Opinion, A Part Of Us Dies

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Our Podium Is The Music. It's Really Important That We Stay Focused, Because Things Become Misconstrued In The Media.

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From The Time That You Are A Child, You Grow Up Repressing Yourself.

It's Emotional Warfare Telling The People We Love, The Most, The Truth About Ourselves.

We Don't Want People To Have Expectations Of Us, But Then We Have Expectations Of Everybody Else.

Everyone Is In The Same Situation, At Different Levels And In Different Places.

The Honor To Me Has Less To Do With The Award. To Me That Translates In The Relationship That I Have With The Audience, And If My Music Is Helpful To Them, That's The Award.

A Lot Of Us Are Too Busy Focusing On What We Think People Want To Hear, As Opposed To Just Saying What's In Our Hearts.

As Long As I Remember That The Glory Is His And Not My Own. When I Confuse That, I Get In Trouble. We Think That We Glorify Ourselves, And The Object Is To Glorify God First, And In Doing That You Become Glorified, You Get Glorified.

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I Was Very Active. I Was Always All Over The Place Trying To Do A Million Things, Just Into This Activity. If You Asked Me When I Was 14 What I Wanted To Be: "activist, First, Is My Occupation. I Am An Activist."

God Teaches Me About Reality, So When He Tells Me To Do Something, I Do, Because I'm Led To.

Life Is Continued Work. It's Constant Learning. The Whole Concept Of Retirement I Don't Even Buy Into. We Should Constantly Be Working. Maybe Not Physically Working, But We Could Be Spiritually, Emotionally Working Toward Bettering Ourselves And Bettering The Lives Of Others Around Us.

Tomorrow Is Always Another Day To Make Things Right.

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The Less I Have, The Freer I Am To Do Whatever I Want To Do.

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

My Whole Life At A Certain Point Was Studio, Hotel, Stage, Hotel, Stage, Studio, Stage, Hotel, Studio, Stage. I Was Expressing Everything From My Past, Everything That I Had Experienced Prior To That Studio Stage Time, And It Was Like You Have To Go Back To The Well, In Order To Give Someone Something To Drink. I Felt Like A Cistern, Dried Up And Like There Was Nothing More. And It Was So Beautiful.

We Have To Make Sure The Music And The Message And The Words And All The Elements Come Through In Our Songs And Every Time We Appear In Public.

I Am Just Beginning To Be More Comfortable With My Identity.

I Have Hour Spurts When I Feel Fine And I Can Walk Normal And Stuff, Other Hours, I'm Wobbling. I Feel Like There's Somebody Behind Me Kicking My Legs Out From Underneath Me. The Whole Tumor Symptom Thing Is Crazy. It's Unpredictable. It Really Messes With Your Life.

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.

I'm In A Very Close-knit, Very, Very Tight Family. My Grandmother Had 13 Kids, So We Had A Lot Of Family Like 50, 60 Grandchildren And We All Lived In Jersey, Relatively In The Same Area. So Every Time There Was Something, My Entire Family Was There. And I Just Believed Everybody's Family Was Like That.

Real Religion Is No Religion At All.

Let Me Be Patient, Let Me Be Kind, Make Me Unselfish, Without Being Blind.

It's Silly When Girls Sell Their Souls Because It's In.

I Have A Problem With Procrastination. I Have A Great Deal Of Difficulty Deciding What To Wear. It's A Woman Thing.

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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.

When I Was Working, And When I Was Making Substantial Amounts Of Money, I Always Filed And Paid My Taxes. This Only Stopped, When It Was Necessary To Withdraw From Society, In Order To Guarantee The Safety And Well-being Of Myself And My Family.

I Wrote These Words For Everyone Who Struggles In Their Youth. Who Won't Accept Deception Instead Of What Is Truth. It Seems We Lose The Game, Before We Even Start To Play. Who Made These Rules? We're So Confused. Easily Led Astray.

Our First Album Was A Stupid Mistake By The Record Company. They Tried To Sell Us As An Alternative Act. A Big Mistake!

Consequence Is No Coincidence.

I Need To Be Surrounded By People As Passionate And As Dedicated As I Am.

A Friend Once Said, And I Found To Be True,that Everyday People, They Lie To God Too,so What Makes You Think, That They Won't Lie To You.

Place Your Attention 6 Inches Above Your Crown. God Is Breathing In And Out There.

It's More Important To Be Righteous Than To Be Right.

I Was Hopeless, Now I'm On Hope Road.

When I Create Music, The Feeling That You Get... I Get First. You [the Listener] Have A Delayed Experience With The Feeling I Initially Get When I Have A Creative Insight. Not Just The Voice, But All The Creativity - The Production, The Idea, The Concept, The Music Involved. There Is A High. There Is An Emotional Experience That Happens When Everything Comes Together... I Made Music As Consistently As I Did, Especially Back In The Day, Because It Made Me Feel So Good... When Everything Is On, It's A Wonderful Feeling.

We Can't Plan Life. All We Can Do Is Be Available For It.

It's Funny How Money Change A Situation.

I Was Very Confused. I Didn't Understand The Difference Between Rebellion Against God And Rebellion Against The System That's Not God.

To Me That's A Reflection Of Love, When Someone Can See You Enjoying Yourself, And Want To Participate, Or Want To Encourage, Or Want To Help You To Do Something That You Enjoy.

I Have Inner Peace. It's A Different Person.

My Concept Of Successful Living Is Escaping The Matrix.

I Try Not To Have A Day Pass Where I Don't Read Something From The Bible. It's Like My Sustenance To Me.

I Got Moxie, I'm So Damn Foxy Industry Try To Block Me Like Cops And Paparazzi.

I Wouldn't Try To Put Myself In A Box Or Put God In A Box.

I Ran Very Fast In The Wrong Direction.

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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've Leaned On God For So Long. "hey, God, You Just Gave Me This Gift, And I'm Just Going To Go Out There And Sing." But I'm Realizing How Much Larger And How Expansive My Gift Becomes When I Actually Pay Attention To It And Try To Practice And Try To Perfect It.

I Consider Myself A Crayon... I May Not Be Your Favorite Color But One Day You'll Need Me To Complete Your Picture.

I Rarely Listen To The Music For The Sheer Pleasure. I'm Listening For The Tool, I'm Listening For The Instrument, I'm Listening For The Art.

Now Don't You Understand Man Universal Law What You Throw Out Comes Back To You, Star Never Underestimate Those Who You Scar Cause Karma, Karma, Karma Comes Back To You Hard

Whether Jew Or Gentile, I Rank Top Percentile...

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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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.

Once You Compromise Yourself In One Way, You Compromise Yourself In Another Way. And You've Just Opened The Door To Compromise, Mediocrity, Settling.

I Love Being Able To Reach People Directly, But In An Ideal Scenario, I Would Not Have To Rush The Release Of New Music… But The Message Is Still There.

I Play My Enemies Like A Game Of Chess

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.

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

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.

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.

And Deep In My Heart. The Answer, It Was In Me. And I Made Up My Mind. To Define My Own Destiny

Who You Going To Tell When The Repercussions Spin, Showing Off Your Ass Because You Think It's A Trend.

Hypocrites Always Wanna Play Innocent

I Don't Buy Into That Whole Concept Of Success That I Have This Mountain With This Moat Around It And Then I Get Into My Big Car And Drive To My Destination And Never See People. That's Not My Concept Of Success.

Miscommunication Leads To Complication.

Miscommunication

Anything That Is Not Growing Is Dead.

I Had An Economic System Imposed On Me.

Economic Systems

I Tried To Manipulate And Control People, And I Harbored Resentment. I Wanted To Be Forgiven, But I Wouldn't Forgive Others.

Never Be Afraid Of Not Knowing. Find Out.

You Might Win Some, But You Just Lost One.

I Don't Know Anybody That's Not Emotionally Unstable Or Schizophrenic.

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I Started To See That My Concept Of Spirituality Was Totally Wrong.

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What Was Freely Given To Me, I Freely Give.

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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.

Never Underestimate Those Who You Scar.

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Tomorrow, Our Seeds Will Grow. All We Need Is Dedication.

Everything Takes Place In A Season. There Was A Season When That's All I Did Was Listen To The Music. Now I'm Just In A Place Where I Don't Listen, I Create. And If I Do Listen There Are Specific Things That I Listen To, And For Specific Reasons.

I Don't Feel Like My Money Or My Success Defines Me. I've Always Been Very Happy Just Bein' Me.

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.

If I Should Fall Asleep And Death Takes Me Away, Don't Be Surprised Son, I Wasn't Put Here To Stay.

Everything We Do Should Be A Result Of Our Gratitude For What God Has Done For Us.

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?

When I Have A Creative Insight, There Is A High. I Think Back In The Day, I Made Music As Much As I Did Because It Made Me Feel So Good. I Think You Could Argue That There Is A Creative Addiction - But, You Know, The Healthy Kind.

Be Honest, Brutally Honest. That Is What's Going To Maintain Relationships.

If Everyone Is A Product Of This Society, Who Will Say The Things That Need To Be Said, And Do The Things That Need To Be Done, Without Compromise? Truth Will Never Start Out Popular In A World More Concerned With Marketability Than Righteousness. It Will Initially Suffer Ridicule And Even Violence - Yet Ultimately It Is Undeniable. All Of Humanity Is Living In A Dream World, But Suffering Real Consequences.

I Can Do What You Do, Easy, Believe Me Frontin' Niggas Give Me Hee-bee-gee-bees

I Hope That By People Seeing The Result Of Freedom That They'll Want Some, Too.

Everything Is Everything What Is Meant To Be, Will Be After Winter, Must Come Spring Change, It Comes Eventually

If I Never Won A Grammy, I Would Be Satisfied, If In Fact I Could Help People. I Don't Say That Because It Sounds Like Something Cool To Say.

Wisdom Is Better Than Silver And Gold

Good Reputation

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.

Hip-hop Isn't Just Music, It Is Also A Spiritual Movement Of The Blacks! You Can't Just Call Hip-hop A Trend!

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I Went To Jamaica For Six Months, And In Jamaica There Was A Lot Of Stillness.

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