Lauryn Hill Quotes

I get out, I get out of all your boxes.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

Loving you is like a Song I replay every 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds of every Day.

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

You say, Wait a minute, God, you spared me from a slave job in an office, and now I have a slave job onstage. I am not on that clock no more.

If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!

I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist."

We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.

We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.

Every time truth comes we hate it, because it's coming against our ego. Are you going to let the ego come between you and this person you love?

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

See no one loves you more than me...and no one ever will

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

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

We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

Wisdom is better than silver and gold

The only way to know is to Live, Learn, and Grow

Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!

From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.

I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.

I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.

Heart, Desire, and Intensity and those have been the three words I kind of latched onto.

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.

Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend.

This life is a process of learning.

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.

I know there are certain gifts that each of us have. The gifts you don't have to worry about so much, because God gave them to us. It's the living, it's the life, it's the now.

Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world's concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life.

I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.

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

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.