Lauryn Hill

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

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

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

Wisdom is better than silver and gold

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

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.

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

Consequence is no coincidence.

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it's not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form.

As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.

Hypocrites always wanna play innocent

If I should fall asleep and death takes me away,_x000D_ _x000D_ Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay.

There are a lot of young black girls who I meet in my travels who don't have a lot of self-esteem. So if I communicate to them that they're beautiful, no white person should find fault in that. It doesn't mean that young white girls aren't beautiful, because they are just as beautiful.

So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone_x000D_ And defecating on your microphone.

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.

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.