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If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.
When you're going to do whatever you're going to do, you have to get your, put your mind into it.
My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest.
It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.
You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.
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.
It's that first step-getting out the door-that's the toughest. If you can do that, you've already won.
I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.
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.
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.
We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.
I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet.
You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.
I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.
If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'
When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.
Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.
I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.
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.
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.
As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me; they were always scared that somebody was going to take me.
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.
I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.
The streets respect me because I kept it real with me. You gotta be real with yourself, and the streets recognize game.
There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.
I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.
It's sad that a lot of identities are lost and a lot of careers are lost because there's sort of a clone thing going on.
God loves me and sent his son to die for me so I have to live to please him because he saved me when everyone abandoned me.
When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.
The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.
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.
I'm hoping that my entrepreneurial side will have me at a place where I don't have to do anything. That's what I'm striving for.
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.
I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.
Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live.
I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.
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.
People in my neighborhood inspired me to sing. Believe in your ability no matter what, but be realistic with yourself and your ability.
I mean, I know my heart is not clean, and your heart is not clean, and none of our urban hearts are clean. But you can be washed again.
I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that.
I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my tough girl attitude was like, 'I'm not having it.'
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.
I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.
There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.
The only person that I'm really feeling - because she has an identity of her own, even though she has listened to Mary J. Blige - is Jill Scott.
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.
If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.
I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.
I suffered from self hatred so much. It's like I didn't want to look like that any more. I didn't to feel like that any more. It had to be another way.