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" When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader. "
Mary J. Blige
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" You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth. "
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" It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile. "
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" Without your health, everything else means nothing. "
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" Two hurt people can not help each other. They can not. "
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" 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. "
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" I think women should band together to get us more respect in all the businesses that we're in because, you know, if we turn 40, we're nothing and nobody. We all should band together and just say we're not gonna go down like that. "
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" There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction. "
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" If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?' "
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" I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me. "
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" 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. "
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" My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block. "
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" I had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not waver on who I am. Know who I am, know what I want, and know it. Not waver on it and be secure in that. And I still struggle with it. But I really... I can't be moved. You can't move me, and that all comes with loving myself, and I'm like my best buddy. "
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" I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does. "
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" When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply. "
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" I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance. "
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" Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free. "
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" 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.' "
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" By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties. "
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" Yonkers made me strong and made me believe in myself, because so many people would doubt you and not believe. There are people that would believe in you, but the environment was so harsh, nobody wanted you to get out, you know? "
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" 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. "
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