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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. "

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

India Arie

Pray

Speak

Always

" When I perform, I'm just very much just being myself. "

" I've always wanted my music to serve a certain purpose. "

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

" Denying any person their humanity is a game we should all stop playing. "

" Our food choices show up on our body. "

India Arie

Our

Show

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

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

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

India Arie

Sing

" 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 was born in love with music. My mother is a singer. Many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side are musical. My grandparents sang and played blues piano. It's literally in my blood. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It's important to have a place where you can recharge. Everybody's is different, but I do think it should entail quiet because it needs to be where you hear your spirit most clearly. For me, that's the prayer room in my apartment. And since my home is 700 square feet, I mean the coat closet near the front door. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

India Arie

Best

Deal

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

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

India Arie

Back

Anything

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

India Arie

Life

Mood

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

" Your soul is between you and God. "

" 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

" It's OK to wear white in the wintertime. Do what you want. "

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

India Arie

Heartbroken

Know

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