Top 30 Lauryn Hill Quotes

I never did anything I’m really ashamed of.

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

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.

When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

I believe God will make a way.

When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction – but, you know, the healthy kind.

This life is a process of learning.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I’m trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with ‘Miseducation,’ it was very hip-hop – always a singing over beats. I don’t think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.

I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.

What was freely given to me, I freely give.

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

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.

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.

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.

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.

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

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

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

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.

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

With The Fugees initially, and even with ‘Miseducation’, it was very hip-hop – always a singing over beats. I don’t think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.

Real religion is no religion at all.

Let optimists rule the world.