Mary J. Blige Quotes

• 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.

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• 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 we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations.

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• 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 responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I’ve gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

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• You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

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• When I was little, like 7 to 15, there was nothing I wanted to do but go to church and go to school.

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• When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.

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

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• 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.

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• You know a lot, but you don’t know everything.

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• 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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• 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 you the truth.

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• When I was a child I didn’t care about getting an education, and I didn’t finish high school.

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• 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 Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!

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

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• My responsibility to God is to live. That’s the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me.

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

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• ‘My Life’ is not an autobiography. It’s just music.

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• My first album is playful.

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• 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 to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That’s the power music has.

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• It’s OK showing yourself some love.

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Mary J. Blige (60)

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

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