Lauryn Hill famous quotes

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

#Gratitude #Reality #Done

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.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Heart #Thinking #People

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

#People #Needs #Passionate

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

#Growing Up #America #Female

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

#White #People #Albums

It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars
-- Lauryn Hill

#Simple #Loving You #Battle

Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Knowing #Not Knowing

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

#Relationship #Reality #Honest

Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies
-- Lauryn Hill

#Opinion #Submit

You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Eye #Finals #Hours

You might win some, but you just lost one.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Rap #Winning #Hip Hop

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got
-- Lauryn Hill

#Envy #Suffering #Be Kind

The only help I need to live, is unprofessional. The only wealth I have to give, is not material. And if you need much more than that, I'm not available.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Giving #Needs #Helping

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.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Moving #Artist #Opportunity

Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Rap #Rocks #Hip Hop

We don't know love like we should. We always talk about 'I have unconditional love”unconditional love iswe don't even know it. Because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them. You're not interesting to talk to anymore, goodbye. But that real love, that love that sometimes is difficult, difficult to have. That's that love. And that's a confidence builder.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Goodbye #Real #Unconditional Love

Hip-Hop started out in the heart
-- Lauryn Hill

#Heart #Hip Hop #Hips

Wisdom is better than silver and gold
-- Lauryn Hill

#Gold #Silver

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.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Military #Past #Order

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

#Self Esteem #Color #One Day

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

#Encouraging #Rocks #Gems

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

#Inspirational #Life #Spring

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Song #Passion #Thinking

Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Responsibility #Fans #Individual

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

#Artist #Practice #Looks

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.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Inspiring #Mean #Artist

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Copies #Creator

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.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Insecurity #Black #Western Culture

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Reality #People #Needs

I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness
-- Lauryn Hill

#Giving #Posse

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?
-- Lauryn Hill

#Stewardship #Should #Force

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Greed #Artistic #Compromise

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

#Spiritual #Hip Hop #Black

In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Children #Opportunity #World

The sweetest thing I've ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Kissing #Sweetest

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.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Dream #Real #Humanity

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Hero #Believe #Names

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.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Integrity #Artist #Giving

There are a lot of young black girls who I meet in my travels who don't have a lot of self-esteem. So if I communicate to them that they're beautiful, no white person should find fault in that. It doesn't mean that young white girls aren't beautiful, because they are just as beautiful.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Beautiful #Girl #Self Esteem

Let’s love ourselves, then we can’t fail, To make a better situation. Tomorrow, our seeds will grow, All we need is dedication!
-- Lauryn Hill

#Dedication #Needs #Tomorrow

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

#Life #Motivational #Plans

Consequence is no coincidence.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Rap #Hip Hop #Coincidence

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.
-- Lauryn Hill

#People #Needs #Want

Miscommunication leads to complication.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Miscommunication #Complication

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Be Kind #Patient #Blind

I get out, I get out of all your boxes.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Boxes

I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth. Who won't accept deception instead of what is truth. It seems we lose the game, before we even start to play. Who made these rules? We're so confused. Easily led astray.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Confused #Struggle #Games

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.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Baby #Smart #Heart

I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Hopeless

Tomorrow, our seeds will grow. All we need is dedication.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Dedication #Needs #Tomorrow

Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Unconditional Love #Love Is #Incredibles

Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ***** because you think it's a trend.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Art #Thinking #Media

I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music… but the message is still there,
-- Lauryn Hill

#Love Is #People #Able

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.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Broken Heart #Letting Go #Hurt

Hypocrites always wanna play innocent
-- Lauryn Hill

#Hypocrite #Play #Innocent

It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Emotional #People #Warfare

It's more important to be righteous than to be right.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Important #Righteous

And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Needs #Want #What You Want

I believe God will make a way.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Believe #Way #Gods Will

It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Girl #Art #Silly

Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Jew

Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin' at all
-- Lauryn Hill

#Fall #Mountain #May

Never underestimate those who you scar.
-- Lauryn Hill

#Scar #Underestimate