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" I know that I pray a lot, and I take time for myself. "
India Arie
Time
Know
Lot
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" I wouldn't be back in my 20s for anything. "
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" 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. "
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Healing
You
" When I perform, I'm just very much just being myself. "
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Being
Myself
Being Myself
" Everything in my music has always been emotionally and spiritually motivated... But after I started doing yoga, the place where I came from changed drastically. "
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Doing
" I want my music to be a contribution, and I want the people who love me on Earth and in Heaven to be proud of who I am, and I want to be proud of myself, and I don't want to look back and say, 'Oh God, why did I say that?' "
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God
I Am
" There are a lot of men who like women with a brain. "
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Brain
Like
" This celebrity culture that hypnotizes people into thinking a person is literally not real because you see them on television is a spell the watcher him- or herself must break. "
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Spell
People
Culture
" I do believe in prophecy. "
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Prophecy
Believe
" At 16, I started really loving country music, and Collin Raye just had the most amazing ballads! "
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Country
Started
" Everybody has a spiritual body. Everybody has a physical body, and so your spiritual body is the stuff that holds all of your emotions like your body holds your organs, your food, your muscles, your water. Your spiritual body holds your emotional state and your mental state. "
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Water
Food
Spiritual
" 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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People
Looking
Me
" 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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Like
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Myself
" The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of. "
India Arie
Afraid
Alive
Feel
" 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. "
India Arie
Mistakes
People
My Own
" I was scared of failing, and I was scared of succeeding. I just wanted to be in a safe space and not grow too big or be too little. "
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Little
Safe
Grow
" 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
" It's cool to hear my songs on the radio. But for me, that's just a way to get more people to have the option of choosing my music. "
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People
Radio
Way
" What I love about Christmas music is it stays around every year and comes back. "
India Arie
Back
Year
Love
" I'm really judgmental, especially about things that I feel make my life harder. "
India Arie
Feel
Life
Judgmental
" I don't want the world to get any worse. I want to make it better. "
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Worse
Get
Make
" I've never said anything that I didn't want to say on a record, ever. "
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Anything
Want
Say
" 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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Life
Deep
Why
" You deal with what comes to you. If it's something you don't like, you deal with it the best you can. If it's something that you love, you rise to the occasion. "
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Best
Deal
Like
" Obviously, I've been heartbroken. We all know what that feels like. "
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Heartbroken
Like
Know
" I know the things I say go out of my own mouth and into my own ears. "
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Own
Go
Know
" Sound is energy, and that energy resonates with your energy. And it gives you a certain feeling. "
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Feeling
Your
You
" I always felt like - I mean, I was told, really - I couldn't go too far with the productions because it didn't appeal to black radio. It wasn't until I decided I was going to do what I wanted to do or I was going to quit that I empowered myself. I took my power back. "
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Power
Quit
Back
" That's the kind of music I want SoulBird to represent: music with intelligence and heart, music that moves people in their souls and their bodies. Music with wings. "
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Music
Kind
Intelligence
" 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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I Am
Strong
Business
" 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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Me
Respect
My Own