Quotes by Lauryn Hill

• I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.
• We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
• I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.
• 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.
• You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.
• We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
• We call ourselves creators and we just copy.
• This life is a process of learning.
• 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.
• Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
• Real religion is no religion at all.
• 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?
• I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.
• I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.
• What was freely given to me, I freely give.
• 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.
• Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.
• From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
• 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 believe God will make a way.
• I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.
• Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.