Latest India.Arie Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

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  Healing, Joy, Mind

  Source: www.ebony.com

• 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

  Believe, Blue, Media

  Source: www.ebony.com

• 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

  Sleep, Years, Next Day

  Source: www.ebony.com

• 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

  Mother, Song, Uncles

  Source: www.ebony.com

• 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

  Mother, Strong, Play

  Source: www.ebony.com

• 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

  Healing, Journey, Littles

  Source: www.ebony.com

• Everybody has their own path. I got mine.

  India.Arie

  Path, Mines

  Source: www.tv.com

• There's a million ways to make people happy.

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  People, Way, Making People Happy

  Source: www.tv.com

• I think it's OK that everyone's not real heavy and wordy and heady.

  India.Arie

  Real, Thinking, Heavy

  Source: www.tv.com

• 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

  Song, Voice, Different Faces

  Source: www.tv.com

• What is socially irresponsible, once again, is just all my opinion. But there are things that I don't think are cool.

  India.Arie

  Thinking, Opinion, Irresponsible

  Source: www.tv.com

• 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

  World, Praying, Stage

  Source: www.tv.com

• When I perform, I'm just very much just being myself.

  India.Arie

  Just Being, Being Myself

  Source: www.tv.com

• 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

  People, Stuff, Situation

  Source: www.tv.com

• 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

  Song, People, Love Someone

  Source: www.tv.com

• I feel very strongly in my opinion that everyone is responsible to themselves for what they do.

  India.Arie

  Opinion, Responsible, Feels

  Source: www.tv.com

• A person's either responsible for themselves or we're all responsible for each other.

  India.Arie

  Responsible, Persons

  Source: www.tv.com

• If I'm not doing anything to make a change, then I'm responsible.

  India.Arie

  Making Changes, Responsible, Ifs

  Source: www.tv.com

• 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

  Thinking, Shoes, People

  Source: www.tv.com

• In reality, on the grand scale, in my opinion... we are actually all responsible for each other.

  India.Arie

  Reality, Opinion, Responsible

  Source: www.tv.com

• 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

  Beautiful, People, Expectations

  Source: www.tv.com

• Some people just don't like to be their self. I'm always looking, analyzing myself.

  India.Arie

  Self, People, Analyzing

  Source: www.tv.com

• 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

  Beautiful, Museums, Feel Good

  Source: www.tv.com

• I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

  India.Arie

  True Life, Energy, Force

  Source: www.tv.com

• 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

  Song, Real, Writing

  Source: www.tv.com