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Singer-songwriter

Lauryn Hill is an influential American singer-songwriter known for her powerful voice and profound musical talent. She gained fame as the lead vocalist of the Fugees, a hip-hop group that achieved significant success in the 1990s. Hill's solo career began with the release of her debut album, 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,' which won numerous awards and is considered one of the greatest albums of all time. Her music often addresses social and political issues, and she has been recognized for her contributions to music and culture.

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“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.”

Ifs Knows Trying Enough Pay Figures Taxes Slavery Debt

Author:Lauryn Hill

“Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying.”

Ifs Trying Littles My Own Ships Navigate Cerebral Conjuring

Author:Lauryn Hill

“I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Comfort Creating Music Is Zone Comfort Zone Bizarre

Author:Lauryn Hill

“Everything takes place in a season. There was a season when that's all I did was listen to the music. Now I'm just in a place where I don't listen, I create. And if I do listen there are specific things that I listen to, and for specific reasons.”

Ifs Reason Seasons

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“If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.”

Ifs War Reading Water Week Middle Paper Boxes Reserves Toilets Battlefields Parachutes Toilet Paper Toothbrushes Reading The Bible

Author:Lauryn Hill

“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."”

Ifs Trying Firsts Wanted Millions Activity Active Activist Occupation

Author:Lauryn Hill

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

Ifs Happens Committed Things Happen Diligent

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“I think the work ethic that was established in my family was something very important. If you plant the seed, if you sow sparingly and reap sparingly. If you sow in abundance you'll reap in abundance.”

Ifs Thinking Important Ethics My Family Plant Seeds Abundance Work Ethic Reap

Author:Lauryn Hill

“The honor to me has less to do with the award. To me that translates in the relationship that I have with the audience, and if my music is helpful to them, that's the award.”

Ifs Audience Honor Music Is Helpful Awards Translate

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“If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say.”

People Ifs Facts Helping Would Be Sound Satisfied Like Something Grammy

Author:Lauryn Hill

“My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.”

Ifs Would Be Mother Easy Saws Achievement Awards Complacent

Author:Lauryn Hill

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Bits Records Heard Beats Singing Hip Hop Hips Range Hops

Author:Lauryn Hill

“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.”

People Ifs Want Needs Please

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“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Song Passion Exposed My Passion

Author:Lauryn Hill

“If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence - yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.”

Ifs World Needs Said Real Done Dream Suffering Humanity Violence Products Consequence Concerned Compromise Righteousness Ridicule This Society Dream World Marketability

Author:Lauryn Hill

“The only help I need to live, is unprofessional. The only wealth I have to give, is not material. And if you need much more than that, I'm not available.”

Ifs Needs Giving Helping Wealth Materials Available

Author:Lauryn Hill

“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.”

Ifs Should Mean Persons Self Beautiful Young Girl Black White Self Esteem Faults Communicate Esteem Black Girl White Girl

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

People Ifs Lasts White Known Albums

Author:Lauryn Hill

“I know you don't wanna hear my opinion, There come many paths and you must choose one. And if you don't change then the rain soon come. See, you might win some, but you just lost one.”

Ifs Knows Might Winning Lost Opinion Path Rain Hip Hop Rap Don't Change Lost Ones Many Paths

Author:Lauryn Hill

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

Ifs Should Fall Son Hip Hop Rap Take Me Take Me Away

Author:Lauryn Hill

“Now the skies could fall Not even if my boss should call The world it seems so very small 'Cause nothing even matters at all”

Ifs World Should Matter Seems Fall Causes Sky Boss

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“Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin' at all”

Ifs May Fall Mountain Have Faith

Author:Lauryn Hill

“Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.”

Ifs Knows Should Persons Love Is Incredibles Unconditional Love Unconditional

Author:Lauryn Hill

“We don't know love like we should. We always talk about 'I have unconditional love' unconditional love is... we don't even know it. Because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them. You're not interesting to talk to anymore, goodbye. But that real love, that love that sometimes is difficult, difficult to have. That's that love. And that's a confidence builder.”

Ifs Knows Should Persons Real Sometimes Difficult Love Is Interesting Goodbye Unconditional Love Real Love Unconditional Builder

Author:Lauryn Hill

“And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.”

Ifs Want Needs Turns What You Want

Author:Lauryn Hill

About the Author

Born: May 26, 1975
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 188

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