Mary J. Blige Quotes

• Our words are so powerful. They can bless or curse someone. Bless someone today with your words.

  Mary J. Blige

  Topics in Advice, Power

• Stay strong out there. Keep your head up and keep moving. Don’t give up.

  Mary J. Blige

  Topics in Advice, Inspirational

• Don’t give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don’t stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don’t ever say it’ll never happen or it’ll never happen.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beating, Happen

• Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

  Mary J. Blige

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scary, Look

• I don’t listen to people’s opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.

  Mary J. Blige

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Opinions, Myself

• I don’t think there’s anything they can say about me that I haven’t said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together – it’s great.

  Mary J. Blige

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fans, Perfect

• I’m a singer who thinks like a rapper.

  Mary J. Blige

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rapper, Singer

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

  Mary J. Blige

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself, Streets

• I’ve never been a mean person.

  Mary J. Blige

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Never, Person

• It’s not just songs and glamour. It’s sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes… It’s life.

  Mary J. Blige

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Glamour, Sweat

• 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, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

  Mary J. Blige

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ends, Lose

• 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 I am in him, I’m done.

  Mary J. Blige

  Topics in God

  Tags in Head, Daddy, Mommy

• I don’t know what kind of God the rest of y’all are serving, but the God I serve says, ‘Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I’m gonna make sure you’re doing that.’

  Mary J. Blige

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Serve, Rest

• 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 wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

  Mary J. Blige

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Owes, Blaming

• You demand respect and you’ll get it. First of all, you give respect.

  Mary J. Blige

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Demand

• I care about me now. When I didn’t care about me, I was, like, ‘Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?’ But when you don’t care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.

  Mary J. Blige

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in I Care, Yourself

• 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 was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.

  Mary J. Blige

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ashamed, Smart

• There’s not enough time to be disrespecting… Life is too short.

  Mary J. Blige

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enough, Time

• 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 believe in you, but the environment was so harsh, nobody wanted you to get out, you know?

  Mary J. Blige

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Environment

• As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

  Mary J. Blige

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dreamed, Kid

Mary J. Blige (60)

Birth:	11th January, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Lyricist, Record Producer, Singer

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