Explore Quotes by Mary J. Blige

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.

The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.

'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest.

Larry David makes me laugh.

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.

If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'

My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.

I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.

I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.

I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.

I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.