Mary J. Blige Quotes

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

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

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

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  Tags in Glamour, Sweat

• I’ve never been a mean person.

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  Tags in Never, Person

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

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  Tags in Yourself, Streets

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

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  Tags in Rapper, Singer

• 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.

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  Tags in Fans, Perfect

• 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.

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  Tags in Opinions, Myself

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

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  Tags in Scary, Look

• 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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  Tags in Beating, Happen

• As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

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  Tags in Dreamed, Kid

• 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?

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  Tags in Believe, Environment

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

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  Tags in Enough, Time

• 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.

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  Tags in Ashamed, Smart

• 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.

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  Tags in I Care, Yourself

Mary J. Blige (60)

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

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