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" 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. "

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" I always felt like - I mean, I was told, really - I couldn't go too far with the productions because it didn't appeal to black radio. It wasn't until I decided I was going to do what I wanted to do or I was going to quit that I empowered myself. I took my power back. "

India Arie

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" 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. "

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

" What I love about Stevie Wonder is the way he makes people feel. He's one of the best examples of how music can heal. "

" It was challenging getting myself into the mindset to lose the weight. Once I got there, the weight dropped off quickly. "

" I'm actually not a fan of the word 'woke.' I think the connotation of that means being socially aware, which is a beautiful thing to be. But it does not take into account being self-aware. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm in show business, and I'm an entertainer, but I also see myself as an artist doing social and spiritual work. "

" I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy. "

" What I love about Christmas music is it stays around every year and comes back. "

" I always have something by Stevie Wonder in my CD player. "

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

" 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

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

" Just like the air you breathe or the water you drink, music shapes you. The trouble is, most people don't use it to spread love and healing. But I think music can make a social contribution if you're responsible with it. "

" The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of. "

" The subconscious doesn't distinguish sarcasm and jokes. It just accepts what it hears. That's the power of words. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If I don't have the right clothes, I feel weird walking out; I don't feel comfortable in what I have on. I have different colors that I want to wear on different days because it makes me feel different. "

" I do believe in prophecy. "

India Arie

Prophecy

Believe

" 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. "

" At 16, I started really loving country music, and Collin Raye just had the most amazing ballads! "

" Our food choices show up on our body. "

India Arie

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Show

" I've never said anything that I didn't want to say on a record, ever. "

" 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 always loved music, but I didn't know if I could be the kind of artist that makes a difference. "

" Even when it doesn't look good, it's always good. Even the worst thing, there's always something good that comes out of it. I've learned that. "