Top 65 India.Arie Quotes
#1. I cant control everything, and I dont need to
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#2. I say everything and I do whatever I want to do. I'm just me. The polished version of me, I suppose, because I have on clothes and makeup. But emotionally, I am very on the surface.
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#3. Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken.
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#4. In the quest for fortune and fame ... don't forget about the simple things.
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#5. I'm still afraid of things, obviously - we're human. But I like that feeling of being afraid.
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#6. I'm not the average girl from your video and I ain't built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because I am a queen
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#7. I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak.
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#8. If you give me half a chance. I'll prove this to you. I will be patient, kind, faithful and true.
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#9. When I look in the mirror and the only one there is me
Every freckle on my face is where it's suppose to be
And I know my creator didn't make no mistakes on me
My feet, my thighs, my Lips, my eyes, I'm loving what I see
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#10. The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of.
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#11. My body is beautiful and sacred, and I'm going to celebrate it.
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#12. I'm a Libra, I always have two sides of everything.
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#13. There are rules but there's really no wrong way.
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#14. Go on and love yourself, cause everything's gonna be alright.
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#15. Because of what I've chosen to do for my work in the world, almost every time that there's something that I'm afraid to do that I need to do, I have to do it in front of other people. It makes me feel exposed.
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#16. I will be patient, kind, faithful and true
To a man who loves music a man who loves art
Respect's the spirit world and thinks with his heart
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#17. There is no substitute for the Truth, either it is or it isn't.
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#18. Things that I'm afraid to do are always about being afraid of being exposed. Every time, that's what it's always about.
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#19. I'm African American, I'm a lot of other things, a musician and an artist. But that woman part holds the most pain for me. And therefore, obviously, the most lessons.
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#20. I like when a teenager comes and talks to me on the street. I've been through a lot and I have a lot to share.
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#21. There's another style of meditation that I've been doing since my mid-twenties. Tapping into your higher self to get a glimpse of yourself from the outside and get insight into what's going on in your life. I learned that from my godfather in my mid-twenties.
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#22. By all of your beauty I am so inspired. Your love has baptized me by fire.
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#23. The only thing constant in the world is change, that's why today I take life as it comes
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#24. I am not my hair. I am not this skin. I am not your expectations no. I am not my hair. I am not this skin. I am the SOUL that lives within
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#25. Success is clarity of my intention ... and reaching that intention while being true to myself and with joy.
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#26. The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.
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#27. In the music industry it's just you're either Black or white, and this is the box you get put in.
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#28. It seems nobody really talks about what we do with our emotional pain. Only the ascendant perhaps, who have learned how to fully meditate or do yoga or whatever through their emotional pain.
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#29. Eating is not one of the things that I do now to deal with pain, because I don't ever want to do that. But I isolate myself, that's what I do.
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#30. The truth, it needs no proof. Either it is or it isn't.
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#31. What tried to demolish me, I allowed to polish me.
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#32. If he ever left me, I wouldn't even be sad; no, 'cause there's a blessing in every lesson, and I'm glad that I knew him at all.
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#33. Your real job in this world is to be you.
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#34. I have, my whole life, been healing the girl inside, the part of me that struggles about being a female in the world. That's why I write about the things I write about.
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#35. My life is so tumultuous. I dive into everything. I'm feeling all up and down and sleepy and moody and hormonal - it just gets crazy. Just to keep myself balanced, I do things like yoga and meditation.
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#36. Anyway, in my performance style, I'm a singer-songwriter. People can call it neo-soul or R&B or whatever. But at the core, when you see me live, I'm a singer-songwriter.
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#37. Break the Shell": "Child, it's time to break the shell Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself You cannot fly until you break the shell.
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#38. In a world of smoke and ashes, you are milk and honey
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#39. I was very fortunate to have learned the transforming power of music early in life. As an adult I want to share that power by inspiring people to care about their neighbors near and far. Being a UNICEF Ambassador allows me this kind of opportunity.
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#40. It's everything, it's nothing, it's perfect.
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#41. Over the years, I was doing what I loved to do, which is my music. But it was always a bit distorted, because I was doing the music in the way other people around me were telling me it should be done.
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#42. What did not demolish me simply polished me.
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#43. You're only human.
Let's break free of this gravity of judgment
And fly high on the wings of forgiveness.
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#45. The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real.
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#46. The worst disease in the world is hate. And the cure for hate is love.
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#47. I choose to be authentic in everything I do
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#48. No matter what anybody says, what matters most is what you think of yourself.
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#49. I heard a voice that told me I'm essential. How all my fears are limiting my potential. Said it's time to step into the light and use every bit of power i have inside.
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#50. Because you never know where life is gonna take you, And you can't change where you've been, But today, I have the opportunity to choose ...
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#51. I'm passionate about the empowerment and healing of girls and women. Where I do the most work in that regard is in my songwriting.
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#53. If you create the game, then you create the rules.
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#54. I love him in every way a women can love a man, from personal to universal but most of all its unconditional.
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#55. The difference between living and feeling alive, is using your fear as fuel to fly.
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#56. Any time someone is passionate about a cause, it's because they want to heal something inside of themselves.
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#57. There aint no substitute for the truth, either it is or it isnt. You see the truth it needs no proof, either it is or it isnt. And you know the truth by the way you feel.
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#58. Every mountain needs someone to climb it,
Every ocean needs someone to dive in,
Every dream needs someone to wish it,
Every adventure needs someone to live it
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#59. It's not fair that people ignore AIDS in Africa because it's Africa. It's not fair.
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#60. I am light. I am not my age, I am not my race; my soul inside is all light. I am light.
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#62. I do all the things that singer-songwriters do. I introduce the songs, I have a story to tell about everything all the time - I cannot be on stage and have something on my mind without telling the audience. I'm super emotional and expressive and vulnerable in that moment.
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#63. Strength, courage & wisdom ... it's been inside of me all along ...
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#64. Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree
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#65. There's hope. It doesn't cost a thing to smile. You don't have to pay to laugh. You better thank God for that.
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