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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. "

" Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships. "

" Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it's not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form. "

" Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us. "

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

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

" I believe God will make a way. "

" I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic. "

" 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 do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics. "

" I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love. "

" 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. "

" I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. "

" 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. "

" I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am. "

" I never did anything I'm really ashamed of. "

" 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 tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others. "

" 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. "

" Let optimists rule the world. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Real religion is no religion 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. "

" That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in. "

" The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution. "

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

" This life is a process of learning. "

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