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" I loved her music and the fact that she was a classically trained pianist and that her voice was so unique, but what made Nina Simone my hero is that I had never seen anyone in the public eye who looked anything like me at all, ever. "

India Arie

Hero

Eye

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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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People

Looking

" If we can just focus our attention where it matters, we can effect change. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Basically, I listen to voices. If they write good songs and they can sing, I'll probably like it. "

India Arie

Sing

Listen

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Listening to 'Songs in the Key of Life' always puts me in a good mood. "

India Arie

Life

Mood

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

" Just to keep myself balanced, I do things like yoga and meditation. "

" I think anyone who is ever on TV is a role model for somebody. "

" The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of. "

" I like Brandy a lot. She's a vocal prodigy. "

India Arie

Brandy

Lot

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love my brownness. "

India Arie

Love

I Love

" I'm kind of like a folk singer mixed with soul, but I feel like if you really are a lover of hip-hop music, make the beat banging as possible and then put the message in so that people get the honey with the medicine. "

" In this era, soul is not a sound or a color: it's an intention. "

" I wouldn't be back in my 20s for anything. "

India Arie

Back

Anything

" In hindsight, I feel like I made the right decision to choose production that would get played on black radio. "

" In Denver, all we really had was pop radio, so I grew up on all that late '70s pop stuff - Billy Joel, James Taylor, Lionel Richie, Elton John, Steve Miller and Toto. Great love songs and really hooky and melodic music - I have all of that stuff in my heart. "

" I like being a role model - people have told me that I am a role model for empowered women, but I don't see myself that way. "

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

" Why not be a person who is loving towards humankind as a whole and people as individuals? "

" Nina Simone sacrificed so much to be as bold as she was about being black and about being female in an era where that could have cost her life. "

" 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

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

" 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. "