110+ Lauryn Hill Quotes On Beauty, Respect And Unconditional

Lauryn Hill is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actress. She is best known for being a member of the Fugees and for her solo album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which won multiple Grammy Awards. Hill is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential musicians of all time. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Lauryn Hill on beauty, respect, love.

Top 10 Lauryn Hill Quotes

1. I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.
2. And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny
3. Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!
4. I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.
5. Loving you is like a Song I replay every 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds of every Day.
6. Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.
7. I got Moxie, I'm so damn foxy Industry try to block me like cops and paparazzi.
8. You might win some, but you just lost one.
9. A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.
10. Let’s love ourselves, then we can’t fail, To make a better situation. Tomorrow, our seeds will grow, All we need is dedication!

Lauryn Hill Short Quotes

• Wisdom is better than silver and gold
• It's more important to be righteous than to be right.
• Consequence is no coincidence.
• Tell me who I've got to be, to get some reciprocity
• Tomorrow, our seeds will grow. All we need is dedication.
• Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.
• Everyday is another chance to get things right.
• I had an economic system imposed on me.
• My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.
• Hypocrites always wanna play innocent

Lauryn Hill Quotes About Love

In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time. — Lauryn Hill

See no one loves you more than me...and no one ever will — Lauryn Hill

It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves. — Lauryn Hill

I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness — Lauryn Hill

Think black love, think universal love. Just think love. — Lauryn Hill

In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love. — Lauryn Hill

I'm trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and caring friend, a responsible person. And every day is another opportunity for me to be successful at that. — Lauryn Hill

If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen! — Lauryn Hill

With the things that I love, I tried to put a couple seeds, a bunch of seeds in the ground and see what sprung up. Sometimes it was acting and sometimes it was music. But whatever it was I continued to plant. — Lauryn Hill

We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer. — Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill Quotes About Life

Life is continued work. It's constant learning. The whole concept of retirement I don't even buy into. We should constantly be working. Maybe not physically working, but we could be spiritually, emotionally working toward bettering ourselves and bettering the lives of others around us. — Lauryn Hill

Everything is everything What is meant to be, will be After winter, must come spring Change, it comes eventually — Lauryn Hill

I knew his life deserved a chance/But everybody told me to be smart/Look at your career they said/Lauren, baby use your head/But instead I chose to use my heart. — Lauryn Hill

In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out. — Lauryn Hill

I know there are certain gifts that each of us have. The gifts you don't have to worry about so much, because God gave them to us. It's the living, it's the life, it's the now. — Lauryn Hill

I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I'm wobbling. I feel like there's somebody behind me kicking my legs out from underneath me. The whole tumor symptom thing is crazy. It's unpredictable. It really messes with your life. — Lauryn Hill

Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world's concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life. — Lauryn Hill

This life is a process of learning. — Lauryn Hill

I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it? — Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill Quotes About God

As long as I remember that the glory is His and not my own. When I confuse that, I get in trouble. We think that we glorify ourselves, and the object is to glorify God first, and in doing that you become glorified, you get glorified. — Lauryn Hill

I don't want to be religious, I want to be spiritual. Anybody can be religious. Some people jog religiously. You don't want to be that, you want to be spiritual. You want to have a relationship with God as opposed to doing what everyone else does. — Lauryn Hill

God said, All right, I'm gonna show you. I made you what you are. God takes care of me. I'm just the one who delivers the message. — Lauryn Hill

I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God. — Lauryn Hill

Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying. — Lauryn Hill

I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it. — Lauryn Hill

Love and this close-knit family structure really helped to give me the confidence. To know that you have family to go back to is a help. It doesn't always happen biologically. Sometimes God gives you family in other forms, but I was very blessed. I have a very strong biological family. — Lauryn Hill

God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force. — Lauryn Hill

You say, Wait a minute, God, you spared me from a slave job in an office, and now I have a slave job onstage. I am not on that clock no more. — Lauryn Hill

I believe God will make a way. — Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill Famous Quotes And Sayings

A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts. — Lauryn Hill

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part. — Lauryn Hill

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got — Lauryn Hill

As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving. — Lauryn Hill

I know you don't wanna hear my opinion, There come many paths and you must choose one. And if you don't change then the rain soon come. See, you might win some, but you just lost one. — Lauryn Hill

Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem. — Lauryn Hill

I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else. — Lauryn Hill

I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth. Who won't accept deception instead of what is truth. It seems we lose the game, before we even start to play. Who made these rules? We're so confused. Easily led astray. — Lauryn Hill

Our podium is the music. It's really important that we stay focused, because things become misconstrued in the media. — Lauryn Hill

Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake! — Lauryn Hill

There are a lot of young black girls who I meet in my travels who don't have a lot of self-esteem. So if I communicate to them that they're beautiful, no white person should find fault in that. It doesn't mean that young white girls aren't beautiful, because they are just as beautiful. — Lauryn Hill

I don't buy into that whole concept of success that I have this mountain with this moat around it and then I get into my big car and drive to my destination and never see people. That's not my concept of success. — Lauryn Hill

I ran very fast in the wrong direction. — Lauryn Hill

My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will. — Lauryn Hill

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of. — Lauryn Hill

If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper. — Lauryn Hill

So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone And defecating on your microphone. — Lauryn Hill

It's funny - more people talk about my 'babe-dom' now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I'm a role model in hot pants now. That's cool! — Lauryn Hill

You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home. — Lauryn Hill

If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say. — Lauryn Hill

Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ass because you think it's a trend. — Lauryn Hill

My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent. — Lauryn Hill

I'm in a very close-knit, very, very tight family. My grandmother had 13 kids, so we had a lot of family like 50, 60 grandchildren and we all lived in Jersey, relatively in the same area. So every time there was something, my entire family was there. And I just believed everybody's family was like that. — Lauryn Hill

From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself. — Lauryn Hill

I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing. — Lauryn Hill

I like a brother that cuts to the chase. — Lauryn Hill

I think the work ethic that was established in my family was something very important. If you plant the seed, if you sow sparingly and reap sparingly. If you sow in abundance you'll reap in abundance. — Lauryn Hill

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do. — Lauryn Hill

The sweetest thing I've ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone. — Lauryn Hill

I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road. — Lauryn Hill

I have inner peace. It's a different person. — Lauryn Hill

I used to play my records aloud until one night my mother was like, "This is too loud. I'm not having it," and so I put on headphones. But the headphones didn't stretch all the way to my bed from the record player, so I had to sleep on the floor in order to hear the records. I slept on the floor right next to the record player until I was probably 19 years old. — Lauryn Hill

Never underestimate those who you scar. — Lauryn Hill

Now the skies could fall Not even if my boss should call The world it seems so very small 'Cause nothing even matters at all — Lauryn Hill

You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour. — Lauryn Hill

I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong. — Lauryn Hill

Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it's good to be reintroduced. — Lauryn Hill

Every time truth comes we hate it, because it's coming against our ego. Are you going to let the ego come between you and this person you love? — Lauryn Hill

We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment. — Lauryn Hill

What was freely given to me, I freely give. — Lauryn Hill

I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it. — Lauryn Hill

How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again — Lauryn Hill

I hope that by people seeing the result of freedom that they'll want some, too. — Lauryn Hill

The only way to know is to Live, Learn, and Grow — Lauryn Hill

I think everything happens in time. There's a time for everything. There's a time to be in a group, and there's a time to be solo. — Lauryn Hill

God teaches me about reality, so when he tells me to do something, I do, because I'm led to. — Lauryn Hill

Let optimists rule the world. — Lauryn Hill

I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me. — Lauryn Hill

To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy. — Lauryn Hill

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change — Lauryn Hill

Heart, Desire, and Intensity and those have been the three words I kind of latched onto. — Lauryn Hill

Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend. — Lauryn Hill

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it. — Lauryn Hill

It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars — Lauryn Hill

My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful. — Lauryn Hill

It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in. — Lauryn Hill

We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality. — Lauryn Hill

Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there. — Lauryn Hill

I play my enemies like a game of chess — Lauryn Hill

I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?" — Lauryn Hill

We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us. — Lauryn Hill

For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true! — Lauryn Hill

I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know. — Lauryn Hill

If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence - yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences. — Lauryn Hill

I can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME Frontin' niggas give me hee-bee-gee-bees — Lauryn Hill

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress. — Lauryn Hill

Real religion is no religion at all. — Lauryn Hill

Life Lessons by Lauryn Hill

1. Lauryn Hill's work emphasizes the importance of staying true to yourself and your values, no matter what obstacles you face.
2. Her music speaks to the power of self-expression and the importance of using your voice to speak out against injustice.
3. Her career is a testament to the power of resilience and determination, showing that with hard work and dedication, anything is possible.