I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else.
Lauryn HillWhen 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 HillMy mother gave me a piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. The correction was the meat, the substance. And then she would sandwich that, sandwich that with another piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. That was very important in shaping and molding our morality, our understanding of ourselves, making sure that we didnโt think we were better than or less than anyone, feeling no more worthy or no less worthy than anyone else.
Lauryn Hill