Lauryn Hill Quotations | Page 2

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 wouldn't try to put myself in a box or put God in a box.

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

It's funny how money change a situation.

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.

If I should fall asleep and death takes me away, Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay.

Heart, Desire, and Intensity and those have been the three words I kind of latched onto.

Let optimists rule the world.

And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.

Real religion is no religion at all.

Miscommunication leads to complication.

Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile.

Anything that is not growing is dead.

Never underestimate those who you scar.

I can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME Frontin' niggas give me hee-bee-gee-bees

I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me.

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.

I got moxie, I'm so damn cocky. Industry tried to block me like cops and paparazzi.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again

Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ass because you think it's a trend.

Tell me who I've got to be, to get some reciprocity

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 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.

I had an economic system imposed on me.

The only way to know is to Live, Learn, and Grow

So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone, And defacating on your microphone

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

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.

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.

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.

Consequence is no coincidence.

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

Hip-Hop started out in the heart

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

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

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.

I ran very fast in the wrong direction.

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

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

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

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.

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.

This life is a process of learning.

My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix...

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.

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.

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.

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

Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.

I'm trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and caring friend, a responsible person. And every day is another opportunity for me to be successful at that.

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.

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

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 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.

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

You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.

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.

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.

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

It's more important to be righteous than to be right.

It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.

See no one loves you more than me...and no one ever will

Let’s love ourselves, then we can’t fail, To make a better situation. Tomorrow, our seeds will grow, All we need is dedication!

Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.

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

Wisdom is better than silver and gold

Tomorrow, our seeds will grow. All we need is dedication.

It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.

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

Everything is everything What is meant to be, will be After winter, must come spring Change, it comes eventually

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.

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.

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.

Everyday is another chance to get things right.

I have inner peace. It's a different person.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin' at all

Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies

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 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.

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.

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.

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

Loving you is like a Song I replay every 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds of every Day...

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.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

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.

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.

We don't know love like we should. We always talk about 'I have unconditional love”unconditional love iswe don't even know it. Because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them. You're not interesting to talk to anymore, goodbye. But that real love, that love that sometimes is difficult, difficult to have. That's that love. And that's a confidence builder.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.