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" Denying any person their humanity is a game we should all stop playing. "
India Arie
Humanity
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" In hindsight, I feel like I made the right decision to choose production that would get played on black radio. "
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" I don't really consider myself a teacher. I think - like, I have opinions like everyone else, and I just share my opinions. "
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" I like Brandy a lot. She's a vocal prodigy. "
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Lot
" Obviously, I've been heartbroken. We all know what that feels like. "
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" I've spent my entire life trying to figure out why I was different than everybody else. Why is my voice so deep? Why am I so muscular? "
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Deep
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" It was challenging getting myself into the mindset to lose the weight. Once I got there, the weight dropped off quickly. "
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" For the first ten years of my career, I felt suffocated. People constantly stood over me while I tried to create. And in 2009, I hit rock bottom. I couldn't find myself because I was looking to be defined by the music industry or by being number one on the Billboard charts. "
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" Even when it doesn't look good, it's always good. Even the worst thing, there's always something good that comes out of it. I've learned that. "
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" It's not my place to say how Zoe Saldana perceives herself, and I can't say how anybody else perceives her, either. I see her as a black person of Hispanic origin, but I don't even know what that really means, because I don't know anything about race and Hispanic culture. "
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Race
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Culture
" When I was growing up, I only saw really brown people on 'The Cosby Show,' and they were rich, and their parents were doctors. It wasn't like my home. "
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" With 'Acoustic Soul,' I saw my music as sparse. But I didn't do that because I was making a commitment to be commercial. That's what made 'Acoustic Soul' so difficult to produce. It took 2 1/2 years because I couldn't figure out what I wanted and still be commercial. "
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" Now that I have better producer chops, a country album is something I want to do one day. I don't know who's going to put it out. But when I do, I don't think people will call it 'country music.' They'll probably call it 'neo-soul.' "
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" I had been on what seemed to be a hiatus to the outside world, but I was actually working very hard on my health, my emotional health, and my business. "
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Health
Business
Hard
" I'm really judgmental, especially about things that I feel make my life harder. "
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Life
Judgmental
" At 16, I started really loving country music, and Collin Raye just had the most amazing ballads! "
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Country
Started
" I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy. "
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Force
Life
True
" There are a lot of men who like women with a brain. "
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Brain
Like
" For me, the healing process starts with graciousness and forgiveness. "
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Forgiveness
Healing
" Some people say, 'If she's so real, why does she call herself with a made-up name?' Well, India is my real name. Or they say, 'If she's so real, why does she wear makeup?' I didn't know there was anything wrong with makeup. "
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Say
Makeup
Know
" It's OK to wear white in the wintertime. Do what you want. "
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Wintertime
Wear
White
" Everybody has their own path. I got mine. "
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Everybody
Got
" I didn't even listen to Bob Marley until I was 17. "
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Marley
" I've been trying to arrive at a person who is self-defined and able to make my own mistakes rather than having other people make them for me. "
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People
My Own
" One of the things that helped me to be confident is to be the kind of musician that I respect. I always liked musicians who wrote their own songs, and so I started writing my own songs. "
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Respect
My Own
" I am on an album with theater icon Billy Porter called the 'Soul of Richard Rodgers.' Our duet is called 'Carefully Taught.' "
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Theater
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I Am
" Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain. "
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Saying
Pain
Say
" I think anyone who is ever on TV is a role model for somebody. "
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Model
Role
Think
" In this era, soul is not a sound or a color: it's an intention. "
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Intention
Era
" If I don't have the right clothes, I feel weird walking out; I don't feel comfortable in what I have on. I have different colors that I want to wear on different days because it makes me feel different. "
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Clothes
Walking
" I'm actually not a fan of the word 'woke.' I think the connotation of that means being socially aware, which is a beautiful thing to be. But it does not take into account being self-aware. "
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Fan