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Lauryn Hill Quotes

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

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

– Lauryn Hill

We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.

– Lauryn Hill

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

– Lauryn Hill

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

The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.

– Lauryn Hill

People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone’s face when I really didn’t like them or know them well enough to like.

– Lauryn Hill

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.

– Lauryn Hill

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

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

– Lauryn Hill

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

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

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

– Lauryn Hill

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

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

– Lauryn Hill

Let optimists rule the world.

– Lauryn Hill

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

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.

– Lauryn Hill

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

– Lauryn Hill

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.

– Lauryn Hill

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

– Lauryn Hill

This life is a process of learning.

– Lauryn Hill

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

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

What was freely given to me, I freely give.

– Lauryn Hill

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

– Lauryn Hill