Mary J. Blige Want Quotations

It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that.

My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.

We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

That's the message I want to give to every up-and-coming artist: Do everything that is going to help you later. If you clone somebody else, that's all they're gonna keep wanting from you.

I don't want no drama in my life, even though we have a little bit, but no more letting people control you. That's drama, because then you become something that you're not.