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" I want to always be classy and honest, and I always want to have fun with music, and if I can't really express who I am through my music, then it's not really fun anymore. "

India Arie

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Healing

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" 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. "

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

" 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?' "

" I don't really consider myself a teacher. I think - like, I have opinions like everyone else, and I just share my opinions. "

India Arie

Opinions

Myself

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

India Arie

Back

Anything

" 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. "

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

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

India Arie

Life

Mood

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I do believe in prophecy. "

India Arie

Prophecy

Believe

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

" 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 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 feel like I'm always gonna sing and write songs because it's me. "

India Arie

Sing

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