Mary J. Blige Quotes

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• When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward.
• When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.
• I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like…
• I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept…
• Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have…
• Yonkers made me strong and made me believe in myself, because so many people would doubt you and not believe. There are people that would…
• As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan,…
• I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.
• Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted…
• Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when…
• You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told…
• I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose,…
• One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has…
• I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the…
• God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.
• In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took…
• I'm a child of God. God is my mommy, my daddy. That's the only thing that'll keep my head up. If I don't remember who…
• There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.
• You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.
• You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

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