Best 148 quotes of Lauryn Hill on MyQuotes

A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.

A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts.

As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.

As long as I remember that the glory is His and not my own. When I confuse that, I get in trouble. We think that we glorify ourselves, and the object is to glorify God first, and in doing that you become glorified, you get glorified.

As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.

As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.

Consequence is no coincidence.

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world's concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life.

Everyday is another chance to get things right.

Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.

Everything is everything What is meant to be, will be After winter, must come spring Change, it comes eventually

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying.

Every time truth comes we hate it, because it's coming against our ego. Are you going to let the ego come between you and this person you love?

For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!

For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.

God said, All right, I'm gonna show you. I made you what you are. God takes care of me. I'm just the one who delivers the message.

God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.

Heart, Desire, and Intensity and those have been the three words I kind of latched onto.

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

Hypocrites always wanna play innocent

I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.

I believe God will make a way.

I can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME Frontin' niggas give me hee-bee-gee-bees

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.

I don't buy into that whole concept of success that I have this mountain with this moat around it and then I get into my big car and drive to my destination and never see people. That's not my concept of success.

I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me.

I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.

I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it.

I don't want to be religious, I want to be spiritual. Anybody can be religious. Some people jog religiously. You don't want to be that, you want to be spiritual. You want to have a relationship with God as opposed to doing what everyone else does.

I do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.

If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence - yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

I find, even though it's raining, I just go outside. I look outside and I'm just so blessed to see it and to experience it, because for such a long time I was just indoors.

If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say.

If I should fall asleep and death takes me away, Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay.

If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.

If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

I get really afraid of those little comforts, those things that make us feel like we did something great, because I've done nothing. I've done nothing. I mean that sincerely.

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.

I got Moxie, I'm so damn foxy Industry try to block me like cops and paparazzi.

I had an economic system imposed on me.

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.