Quotes By Mary J. Blige
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.
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I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.
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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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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.'
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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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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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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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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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As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.
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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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I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.
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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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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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I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.
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