India.Arie Quotes

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.

The difference between living and feeling alive, is using your fear as fuel to fly.

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.

What tried to demolish me, I allowed to polish me.

The only thing constant in the world is change, that's why today I take life as it comes

I love him in every way a women can love a man, from personal to universal but most of all its unconditional.

In the music industry it's just you're either Black or white, and this is the box you get put in.

My body is beautiful and sacred, and I'm going to celebrate it.

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.

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.

I'm a Libra, I always have two sides of everything.

I'm passionate about the empowerment and healing of girls and women. Where I do the most work in that regard is in my songwriting.

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

You're only human.
Let's break free of this gravity of judgment
And fly high on the wings of forgiveness.

If you create the game, then you create the rules.

The truth, it needs no proof. Either it is or it isn't.

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.

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.

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.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

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.

If you give me half a chance. I'll prove this to you. I will be patient, kind, faithful and true.

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.

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.

Either you're a hater or a lover.

Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree

It's not fair that people ignore AIDS in Africa because it's Africa. It's not fair.

Any time someone is passionate about a cause, it's because they want to heal something inside of themselves.

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.

There are rules but there's really no wrong way.

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.

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.

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.

Things that I'm afraid to do are always about being afraid of being exposed. Every time, that's what it's always about.

The worst disease in the world is hate. And the cure for hate is love.

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 ...

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.

In the quest for fortune and fame ... don't forget about the simple things.

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.

Go on and love yourself, cause everything's gonna be alright.

It's everything, it's nothing, it's perfect.

I cant control everything, and I dont need to

In a world of smoke and ashes, you are milk and honey

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.

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.

It doesn't cost a thing to smile,