India.Arie famous quotes

I heard a voice that told me I'm essential. How all my fears are limiting my potential. Said it's time to step into the light and use every bit of power i have inside.
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#Light #Voice #Essentials

What did not demolish me simply polished me.
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The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real.
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#Song #Real #Hiv

The worst disease in the world is hate. And the cure for hate is love.
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#Hate #World #Disease

I'm not the average girl from your video and I ain't built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because i am a queen
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#Girl #Queens #Average

Break the Shell”: “Child, it’s time to break the shell Life’s gonna hurt but it’s meant to be felt You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself You cannot fly until you break the shell.
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#Hurt #Children #Sky

Success is clarity of my intention....and reaching that intention while being true to myself and with joy.
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#Joy #Clarity #Intention

It doesn't cost a thing to smile,
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#Cost

My body is beautiful and sacred, and I'm going to celebrate it.
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#Beautiful #Body #Sacred

You're only human. Let's break free of this gravity of judgment And fly high on the wings of forgiveness.
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#Forgiveness #Wings #Judgment

Your real job in this world is to be you.
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#Jobs #Real #World

The only thing constant in the world is change, that's why today I take life as it comes
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#World #Today #Constant

One of the things that I've worked my way out of doing, and I knew that I needed to, was comparing myself to other people. That just poisins everything. It all of a sudden dtermines even clothes you're going to choose to wear that day or what you're going to do with a music production or how you're going to sequence it. It poisinseverything. Your real job in the world is to be you. Comparing yourself to other people I think that hurt me more than anything. Allowing myself to go there so much in my head hurt me.
-- India.Arie

#Hurt #Jobs #Real

Either you're a hater or a lover.
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#Lovers

In a world of smoke and ashes, you are milk and honey
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#Ashes #World #Honey

You're beautiful like a flower More valuable than a diamond You are powerful like a fire... There is nothing in the world that you cannot do When you believe in you, who are beautiful Yeah you, who are brilliant Yeah you, who are powerful Yeah you, who are resilient
-- India.Arie

#Beautiful #Powerful #Believe

I am not my hair. I am not this skin. I am not your expectations no. I am not my hair. I am not this skin. I am the SOUL that lives within
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#Hair #Expectations #Soul

Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken.
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#Mistake #Taken #Journey

If you create the game, then you create the rules.
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#Games

When I look in the mirror and the only one there is me Every freckle on my face is where it’s suppose to be And I know my creator didn’t make no mistakes on me My feet, my thighs, my Lips, my eyes, I’m loving what I see
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#Mistake #Eye #Mirrors

The difference between living and feeling alive, is using your fear as fuel to fly.
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#Differences #Feelings #Alive

I was very fortunate to have learned the transforming power of music early in life. As an adult I want to share that power by inspiring people to care about their neighbors near and far. Being a UNICEF Ambassador allows me this kind of opportunity.
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#Opportunity #People #Adults

Strength, courage & wisdom...it's been inside of me all along...
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#Courage Strength

I cant control everything, and I dont need to
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#Needs

There's hope. It doesn't cost a thing to smile. You don't have to pay to laugh. You better thank God for that.
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#Laughing #Thank God #Cost

Chaos isn't good for your health.
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#Chaos

Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree
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#Acceptance #Tree #Tolerance

What tried to demolish me, I allowed to polish me.
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#Polish

It's not fair that people ignore AIDS in Africa because it's Africa. It's not fair.
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#People #Aids

If you give me half a chance. I'll prove this to you. I will be patient, kind, faithful and true.
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#Giving #Faithful #Half

I will be patient, kind, faithful and true To a man who loves music a man who loves art Respect's the spirit world and thinks with his heart
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#Art #Men #Thinking

Because you never know where life is gonna take you, And you can’t change where you’ve been, But today, I have the opportunity to choose...
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#Opportunity #Today #Life Is

In the quest for fortune and fame...don't forget about the simple things.
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#Simple #Quests #Forget

Every mountain needs someone to climb it, Every ocean needs someone to dive in, Every dream needs someone to wish it, Every adventure needs someone to live it
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#Dream #Ocean #Adventure

Make choices that are loving for yourself - with your diet, your relationships, and in speaking your loving truth - that are in alignment with what you want to be doing. When you see that in a person, you are seeing their passion and fulfillment, and that person feels good to you because they feel good to themselves. I know that I feel good and I think that comes across on stage; when I didn't feel good before, I think that came across on stage.
-- India.Arie

#Inspiring #Passion #Journey

The truth, it needs no proof. Either it is or it isn't.
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#Needs #Proof

No matter what anybody says, what matters most is what you think of yourself.
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#Thinking #What Matters #Matter

I choose to be authentic in everything I do
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Go on and love yourself, cause everything's gonna be alright.
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#Love You #And Love #Goes On