Top 150 Lauryn Hill Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “What was freely given to me, I freely give.”

— Lauryn Hill

52. “Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you’ve just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.”

— Lauryn Hill

53. “I don’t buy into that whole concept of success that I have this mountain with this moat around it and then I get into my big car and drive to my destination and never see people. That’s not my concept of success.”

— Lauryn Hill

54. “We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.”

— Lauryn Hill

55. “We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.”

— Lauryn Hill

56. “I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: “Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist.””

— Lauryn Hill

57. “Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody’s throat. For those who don’t want it, I have nothing to defend.”

— Lauryn Hill

58. “I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I’m wobbling. I feel like there’s somebody behind me kicking my legs out from underneath me. The whole tumor symptom thing is crazy. It’s unpredictable. It really messes with your life.”

— Lauryn Hill

59. “As long as I remember that the glory is His and not my own. When I confuse that, I get in trouble. We think that we glorify ourselves, and the object is to glorify God first, and in doing that you become glorified, you get glorified.”

— Lauryn Hill

60. “It could all be so simple, but you’d rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars.”

— Lauryn Hill

61. “When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction – but, you know, the healthy kind.”

— Lauryn Hill

62. “If you love something and if you’re committed and diligent – the things happen!”

— Lauryn Hill

63. “A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what’s in our hearts.”

— Lauryn Hill

64. “If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence- yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.”

— Lauryn Hill

65. “If I’d known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.”

— Lauryn Hill

66. “You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.”

— Lauryn Hill

67. “Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile.”

— Lauryn Hill

68. “I don’t need anybody to market or promote me. If people don’t want to hear this music, then it’s not for them. You cannot please everybody.”

— Lauryn Hill

69. “I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can’t be with no one else.”

— Lauryn Hill

70. “The sweetest thing I’ve ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone.”

— Lauryn Hill

71. “Hip-Hop isn’t just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can’t just call Hip-Hop a trend!”

— Lauryn Hill

72. “And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.”

— Lauryn Hill

73. “Hip-Hop started out in the heart.”

— Lauryn Hill

74. “In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time.”

— Lauryn Hill

75. “Love and this close-knit family structure really helped to give me the confidence. To know that you have family to go back to is a help. It doesn’t always happen biologically. Sometimes God gives you family in other forms, but I was very blessed. I have a very strong biological family.”

— Lauryn Hill

76. “The sweetest thing I’ve ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone, the soft caress of happiness, the way you walk, your style of dress, I wish I didn’t get so weak, oh baby just to hear you speak, makes me argue just to see how much your in love with me.”

— Lauryn Hill

77. “I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.”

— Lauryn Hill

78. “It’s emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.”

— Lauryn Hill

79. “Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ass because you think it’s a trend.”

— Lauryn Hill

80. “It’s funny – more people talk about my ‘babe-dom’ now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I’m a role model in hot pants now. That’s cool!”

— Lauryn Hill

81. “The work is constant. There’s a time for rest, but I don’t believe in getting comfortable just because everyone says you’ve arrived.”

— Lauryn Hill

82. “I was very confused. I didn’t understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that’s not God.”

— Lauryn Hill

83. “There are a lot of young black girls who I meet in my travels who don’t have a lot of self-esteem. So if I communicate to them that they’re beautiful, no white person should find fault in that. It doesn’t mean that young white girls aren’t beautiful, because they are just as beautiful.”

— Lauryn Hill

84. “To me that’s a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.”

— Lauryn Hill

85. “The only help I need to live, is unprofessional. The only wealth I have to give, is not material. And if you need much more than that, I’m not available.”

— Lauryn Hill

86. “You don’t know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It’s all in the practice.”

— Lauryn Hill

87. “Real religion is no religion at all.”

— Lauryn Hill

88. “I think the work ethic that was established in my family was something very important. If you plant the seed, if you sow sparingly and reap sparingly. If you sow in abundance you’ll reap in abundance.”

— Lauryn Hill

89. “As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.”

— Lauryn Hill

90. “Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world’s concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life.”

— Lauryn Hill

91. “I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.”

— Lauryn Hill

92. “Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.”

— Lauryn Hill

93. “From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.”

— Lauryn Hill

94. “Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.”

— Lauryn Hill

95. “I wouldn’t try to put myself in a box or put God in a box.”

— Lauryn Hill

96. “My parents had a love for music. There were so many records, so much music constantly being played. My mother played piano, my father sang, and we were always surrounded in music.”

— Lauryn Hill

97. “I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness.”

— Lauryn Hill

98. “When you’re young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I’ve graduated from that school.”

— Lauryn Hill

99. “I’ve leaned on God for so long. “Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I’m just going to go out there and sing.” But I’m realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.”

— Lauryn Hill

100. “Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.”

— Lauryn Hill