India.Arie
I'm a Libra, I always have two sides of everything.Collection: Two Sides
When I think about the cause I'm most passionate about, it's all in my music all the time, because I'm always singing about the empowerment of women. Always, even when it's a little love song - it's still about the empowerment of women and this high spiritual nature of love. It's the biggest healer ever.Collection: Spiritual
If he ever left me, I wouldn't even be sad; no, 'cause there's a blessing in every lesson, and I'm glad that I knew him at all.Collection: Lost Love
Some people just don't like to be their self. I'm always looking, analyzing myself.Collection: Self
In the quest for fortune and fame...don't forget about the simple things.Collection: Simple
There's hope. It doesn't cost a thing to smile. You don't have to pay to laugh. You better thank God for that.Collection: Laughing
Back when I had a little, I thought that I needed a lot. A little was overrated, but a lot was a little too complicated. See, zero didn't satisfy me. A million didn't make me happy. That's when I learned a lesson that it's all about your perception....THERE'S HOPE. It doesn't cost a thing to smile. You don't have to pay to laugh. Better thank God for that.Collection: Zero
The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.Collection: Vulnerable
Either you're a hater or a lover.Collection: Lovers
Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the treeCollection: Acceptance
You know how people are becoming sexually active way too early because they think it's going to be like it is in the movies. And people are not aware of their bodies in a certain way, because they are afraid to see themselves for who they are because they want to see themselves in someone else's shoes or whatever.Collection: Thinking
I cant control everything, and I dont need toCollection: Needs
Beautiful jewelry, a beautiful room - that's what museums are - a beautiful painting, a beautiful face, it makes you feel good to look at, and that's a beautiful thing.Collection: Beautiful
There are rules but there's really no wrong way.Collection: Way
Any time someone is passionate about a cause, it's because they want to heal something inside of themselves.Collection: Passionate
There's another style of meditation that I've been doing since my mid-twenties. Tapping into your higher self to get a glimpse of yourself from the outside and get insight into what's going on in your life. I learned that from my godfather in my mid-twenties.Collection: Self
There is no secret, you try and never stop trying. If you have to sleep all day, and get up the next day, you keep trying. If you have to take 3 years away, do it and then come back. But it's all about trying. Not everything will work, but some things will, and you have to try.Collection: Sleep
I'm still afraid of things, obviously - we're human. But I like that feeling of being afraid.Collection: Feelings
I don't see social media as lending my voice as much as I see it speaking my truth. If you look at my open letters, the one I wrote about Blue Ivy too - you see, I am always as the foundation, talking about us being a better humanity. I believe in that.Collection: Believe
If I'm not doing anything to make a change, then I'm responsible.Collection: Making Changes
You hear people sing songs about when they really can't stand anyone anymore or you hear people sing songs about when they really love someone and they really love them.Collection: Song
I like when a teenager comes and talks to me on the street. I've been through a lot and I have a lot to share.Collection: Teenager
There's a million ways to make people happy.Collection: People
A person's either responsible for themselves or we're all responsible for each other.Collection: Responsible
Anyway, in my performance style, I'm a singer-songwriter. People can call it neo-soul or R&B or whatever. But at the core, when you see me live, I'm a singer-songwriter.Collection: People
I was very fortunate to have learned the transforming power of music early in life. As an adult I want to share that power by inspiring people to care about their neighbors near and far. Being a UNICEF Ambassador allows me this kind of opportunity.Collection: Power
Over the years, I was doing what I loved to do, which is my music. But it was always a bit distorted, because I was doing the music in the way other people around me were telling me it should be done.Collection: Years
It's in my music, and its on my mind all the time. To spread love, healing peace and joy is my mission in life - and so I speak up.Collection: Healing
I think it's OK that everyone's not real heavy and wordy and heady.Collection: Real
I say everything and I do whatever I want to do. I'm just me. The polished version of me, I suppose, because I have on clothes and makeup. But emotionally, I am very on the surface.Collection: Makeup
When it comes down to the song writing, I'm just very slow - very slow. Because the songs are about my life, so I'm doing emotional work on myself. As I'm writing these songs, I have to learn these lessons and dig real deep into my heart to write this stuff.Collection: Song
I feel very strongly in my opinion that everyone is responsible to themselves for what they do.Collection: Opinion
In reality, on the grand scale, in my opinion... we are actually all responsible for each other.Collection: Reality
What is socially irresponsible, once again, is just all my opinion. But there are things that I don't think are cool.Collection: Thinking
Eating is not one of the things that I do now to deal with pain, because I don't ever want to do that. But I isolate myself, that's what I do.Collection: Pain
I do experiment with lots of different genres. In making music, I don't think of genre like, "I want to do this, because I'm going use that country music sound; I'm going use that hip-hop sound; I'm going use that acoustic [sound]." It's just making music. So now that I've traveled a lot more since I did Acoustic Soul, I'm sure that different sounds will come into place, because I have been exposed to it and I like it. But it's not so much of a conscience effort. It's mind and spirited. You know, we're humans.Collection: Country
I do all the things that singer-songwriters do. I introduce the songs, I have a story to tell about everything all the time - I cannot be on stage and have something on my mind without telling the audience. I'm super emotional and expressive and vulnerable in that moment.Collection: Song
Things that I'm afraid to do are always about being afraid of being exposed. Every time, that's what it's always about.Collection: Exposed
Because of what I've chosen to do for my work in the world, almost every time that there's something that I'm afraid to do that I need to do, I have to do it in front of other people. It makes me feel exposed.Collection: People
It seems nobody really talks about what we do with our emotional pain. Only the ascendant perhaps, who have learned how to fully meditate or do yoga or whatever through their emotional pain.Collection: Pain
I started dealing with my emotional pain by writing. I always had been a writer, but just not songs. Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.Collection: Song
I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak.Collection: People
In the music industry it's just you're either Black or white, and this is the box you get put in.Collection: White
It's not fair that people ignore AIDS in Africa because it's Africa. It's not fair.Collection: People
Chaos isn't good for your health.Collection: Chaos