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" Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do. "

Mary J. Blige

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Mary J. Blige

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Negative

" I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that. "

" I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music. "

" So many people are like, 'I'm perfect.' I'm so imperfect; that's why I'm able to let everything out and let people see everything. 'Cause I'm just a mess like every other person that's a mess out there. "

" I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I decided to pray and to seek God on my own. I just stayed in The Word. And it worked. "

" My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. "

Mary J. Blige

Live

" The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant. "

" I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people. "

" There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong. "

" I just love food, period. "

" If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?' "

Mary J. Blige

Why

Journey

" Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it. "

" God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody. "

Mary J. Blige

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Nobody

" From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business, I couldn't see that. "

" Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free. "

" I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for. "

" It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life. "

" I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest. "

" I've never been a mean person. "

" I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea. "

" I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great. "

" I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children. "

" You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it. "

" Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen. "

" I believe there should be no more drama, but it's everywhere you go. It's just about how you get out. You've gotta bob and weave because it's everywhere. How do I keep the drama low? It's about using your head. "

Mary J. Blige

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Believe

" I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.' "

" I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them. "

" Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has. "

" Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen. "