Lauryn Hill Quotes (32 Quotes)

If they only showed Love, they would own love.

I got moxie, I'm so damn cocky Industry tried to block me like cops and paparazzi.

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

Wow, this is so amazing. I thank God. This is crazy because this is hip-hop music.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

What was freely given to me, I freely give.

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

The only wealth I have to give, is not material - and if you need much more than that, I'm not available

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

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

It's funny - more people talk about my 'babe-dom' now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I'm a role model in hot pants now. That's cool

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

It's really a miracle that I'm alive.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

I had to learn the hard way some really important life lessons. There was really no one there to say, don't do this or don't do that.

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

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

I knew his life deserved a chance; But everybody told me to be smart; Look at your career they said'Lauren, baby use your head'But instead I chose to use my heart.

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

Real religion is no religion at all.

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

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

This life is a process of learning.

I believe God will make a way.

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.