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Because you never know where life is gonna take you, And you can't change where you've been, But today, I have the opportunity to choose.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Opportunity
Life Is
Today
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I will be patient, kind, faithful and true To a man who loves music a man who loves art Respect's the spirit world and thinks with his heart
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Art
Men
Thinking
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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.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Apologizing
People
Speak
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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.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Eating
Pain
Want
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I'm not the average girl from your video and I ain't built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because i am a queen
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Girl
Love
Queens
Average
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It's always sad to me when certain people are excluded from being considered beautiful... because of someone else's expectation. That bothers me.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Beautiful
Expectations
People
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I'm just in that stage where I pray for God to show me how I can be effective in the world and things come up and I go. But I have yet to really dig in.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Praying
Stage
World
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Every mountain needs someone to climb it, Every ocean needs someone to dive in, Every dream needs someone to wish it, Every adventure needs someone to live it
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Ocean
Adventure
Wish
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God is infinitely creative, and everyone's different, and everyone has a different path, a different lesson, a different song, a different face, a different voice.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Different Faces
Song
Voice
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The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Music
Real
Song
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I'm African American, I'm a lot of other things, a musician and an artist. But that woman part holds the most pain for me. And therefore, obviously, the most lessons.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
African American
Artist
Pain
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I heard a voice that told me I'm essential. How all my fears are limiting my potential. Said it's time to step into the light and use every bit of power i have inside.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Essentials
Light
Voice
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I have, my whole life, been healing the girl inside, the part of me that struggles about being a female in the world. That's why I write about the things I write about.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Girl
Healing
Struggle
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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.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Beautiful
Feel Good
Museums
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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.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Love Someone
People
Song
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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.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
People
Soul
Style
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There aint no substitute for the truth, either it is or it isnt. You see the truth it needs no proof, either it is or it isnt. And you know the truth by the way you feel.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Needs
Proof
Way
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Your work is to find healing. And I find, for me, it's a little bit at a time, and eventually it's barely there. And the journey is finding what works for you and doing it.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Journey
Findings
Healing
Littles
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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.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Clothes
Makeup
Want
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Break the Shell”: “Child, it’s time to break the shell Life’s gonna hurt but it’s meant to be felt You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself You cannot fly until you break the shell.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Children
Hurt
Sky
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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.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Yoga
Emotional
Pain
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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.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Done
People
Years
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My life is so tumultuous. I dive into everything. I'm feeling all up and down and sleepy and moody and hormonal - it just gets crazy. Just to keep myself balanced, I do things like yoga and meditation.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Yoga
Crazy
Meditation
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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.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Needs
People
World
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When I look in the mirror and the only one there is me Every freckle on my face is where it’s suppose to be And I know my creator didn’t make no mistakes on me My feet, my thighs, my Lips, my eyes, I’m loving what I see
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Eye
Mirrors
Mistake
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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.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Opportunity
Power
People
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There is one relationship I was in that I learned a lot from. I learned a lot from the situation about myself and about relationships and about love, about how to relate to people, about forgiveness and the stuff that comes with being in a relationship.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
People
Situation
Stuff
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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.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Believe
Blue
Media
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I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer, many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side are musical, my grandparents sang and played blues piano. It's literally in my blood. My mother wrote an original song to teach me the days of the week.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Uncles
Aunt
Mother
Song
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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.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Real
Song
Writing
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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.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Meditation
Self
Style
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You're beautiful like a flower More valuable than a diamond You are powerful like a fire... There is nothing in the world that you cannot do When you believe in you, who are beautiful Yeah you, who are brilliant Yeah you, who are powerful Yeah you, who are resilient
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Beautiful
Believe
Powerful
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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.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Emotional
Mind
Song
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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.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Next Day
Sleep
Years
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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.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Pain
Song
Writing
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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.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Song
Spiritual
Thinking
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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.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
People
Shoes
Thinking
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I managed because of my mother. I managed because I'm strong. I managed the same way every other abuse survivor survives, you just do. So many people have been abused, it's not rare, it's a very common human experience, and we survive. Also, my music plays a big role in my thriving. Having an outlet, it really makes a difference.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Mother
Play
Strong
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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.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Zero
Laughing
Perception
Thank God
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Make choices that are loving for yourself - with your diet, your relationships, and in speaking your loving truth - that are in alignment with what you want to be doing. When you see that in a person, you are seeing their passion and fulfillment, and that person feels good to you because they feel good to themselves. I know that I feel good and I think that comes across on stage; when I didn't feel good before, I think that came across on stage.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Inspiring
Journey
Passion
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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.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Country
Effort
Thinking
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One of the things that I've worked my way out of doing, and I knew that I needed to, was comparing myself to other people. That just poisins everything. It all of a sudden dtermines even clothes you're going to choose to wear that day or what you're going to do with a music production or how you're going to sequence it. It poisinseverything. Your real job in the world is to be you. Comparing yourself to other people I think that hurt me more than anything. Allowing myself to go there so much in my head hurt me.
India.arie / Singer-Songwriter
Jobs
Hurt
Real
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