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" I am really excited to be partnering with Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula. Aside from being a longtime fan of their products, they're a family business with a strong ethical foundation, and that makes us a great match. "

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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. "

India Arie

Race

Say

Culture

" I always pray when I write songs that my spirit guides, or whoever is with me, inspiring me, would let me speak the truth. "

" 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. "

India Arie

Respect

My Own

" Just like the air you breathe or the water you drink, music shapes you. The trouble is, most people don't use it to spread love and healing. But I think music can make a social contribution if you're responsible with it. "

" To spread love, healing, peace, and joy is my mission in life - and so I speak up. "

" 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. "

" Neo-soul is really less about a sound than it is about a look, in my opinion. "

" When it comes down to the song writing, I'm just very slow - very slow. Because the songs are about my life, so I'm doing emotional work on myself. "

" There are a lot of men who like women with a brain. "

India Arie

Women

Brain

" 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. "

" Your soul is between you and God. "

" Joe Sample was one of my heroes. I met him at the Curacao Jazz festival, and I fanned out like he was the Beatles! "

" I don't want the world to get any worse. I want to make it better. "

" 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. "

" So many people have been abused. It's not rare; it's a very common human experience, and we survive. "

" Every once in a while, I find something that I'm interested in just because of the singing, like the Goo Goo Dolls. "

India Arie

Dolls

Singing

" Nobody looked like me when I was growing up. None of the kids were as big as me, or as serious as me, or listened to the same music. "

" Could a person really make a social contribution through music consciously? I mean, beyond making a person happy to hear the song and more making a social contribution consciously through your music? For me, Stevie Wonder is the paragon of that. And I didn't want to be Stevie Wonder, but I did want to do what he does. "

" It was challenging getting myself into the mindset to lose the weight. Once I got there, the weight dropped off quickly. "

" I'm really judgmental, especially about things that I feel make my life harder. "

" I know that I pray a lot, and I take time for myself. "

" Sound is energy, and that energy resonates with your energy. And it gives you a certain feeling. "

" It took me almost wanting to retire to realize that you need to ask for what you need. Everybody needs something different, but whatever it is you need, you need to ask for it and figure out how to get it. "

India Arie

You

Need

" I am on an album with theater icon Billy Porter called the 'Soul of Richard Rodgers.' Our duet is called 'Carefully Taught.' "

" You wash your hands when you shake a bunch of hands. You have to wash your energy when you're around people. It's hard for me to say self-care is washing, although I think it is. So I made music for self-care. That's what it's for. "

" 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. "

India Arie

People

Looking

" Songs like 'Peaceful World' and songs that are responsible with their lyrics and talk about love and harmony can take the forefront and do something for real. "

" I made a conscious decision when I was recording 'Acoustic Soul' to - and this is one of my mantras - follow the music and let the chips fall where they may. "

India Arie

Decision

Fall

" I hope that the things that I sing about will be an inspiration for people to be original. "

" I always loved music, but I didn't know if I could be the kind of artist that makes a difference. "