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I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.
Mary J. Blige
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Mary J. Blige
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 11
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Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.
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Cause I'm no better than you, you, or you. And I can't get on no throne and preach, 'cause I'm not God.
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I cannot save the world, that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to walk the walk and be an example to those that want it. Not everybody does, but if Mary J Blige can come out of that same hole you were in, then you can do it too - that's my goal: to do that without saying it, but actually live it.
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When you're going to do whatever you're going to do, you have to get your, put your mind into it.
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It's OK showing yourself some love.
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I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.
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In your life there's peaks and valleys and sometimes we regress, and we don't even know we regress. You just have to learn how to accept all of your mistakes and learn to love yourself again.
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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 do consider myself part of black history.
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When I`m going to do a Christmas album I had to put my mind in Christmas mode. I had to go back to being a child and remembering all of that. When I go to do a project, I'm serious about it, so I wrap my world around it, and it becomes Christmastime for me and I'm singing songs like it's Christmas day.
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Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.
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In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.
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It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.
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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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It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.
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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 up to us to choose whether we win or lose...and I choose to win.
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Don't go a full day or night without washing your face. You have to get all the dirt and makeup out of your pores.
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Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.
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