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" 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. "

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" You need to take care of you and fortify yourself and then move out to take care of others. "

" If I were not a black artist but I was still singing, playing guitar, and singing ballads that are spiritual and cerebral, I'd be easier to market because people accept that from white female singer-songwriters faster. "

" 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 do believe in prophecy. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Between '06 and '09, I dealt with pain by eating. And I was like, 'Oh, crap, eating makes you gain weight!' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 'Open Door' was a world music project and bilingual. It was in Hebrew and English, and it's great. I do think it's really beautiful. But it's very emotional and very dark - in a good way. "

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

" 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. "

" Obviously, I've been heartbroken. We all know what that feels like. "

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

" Music lives in my mother - she's played in bands in Detroit and toured and did the whole thing. So I have somebody who's done it all to just talk to. And we write songs together. "

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

" 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. "

" I love my brownness. "

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

" 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. "

" I didn't even listen to Bob Marley until I was 17. "

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

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

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

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