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Lauryn Hill Biography

Lauryn Noelle Hill (born May 26, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actress. She is known for being a member of the Fugees and for her critically acclaimed solo album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which won numerous awards and broke several sales records.

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

Art, Media, Showing, Spin, Think, Thinking

Everyday is another chance to get things right.

Another Chance, Chance, Everyday, Hope, Right, Things

It's more important to be righteous than to be right.

Important, Right, Righteous

Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it's good to be reintroduced.

Meetings, Meeting, Lauryn, Good, Reintroduced

People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.

Arena, Felt, People, Sake, Smile, Uncomfortable

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.

Appear, Elements, Make, Messages, Music, Song

Now I may have faith
to make mountains fall
But if I lack love
then I am nothin' at all

Fall, Make, May, Mountain, Mountains, Nothin

I got moxie, I'm so damn cocky. Industry tried to block me like cops and paparazzi.

Block, Cocky, Cops, Damn, Moxie

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.

Car, Destination, Mountain, People, See, Whole

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.

Blessed, Giving, God, Strong, Structure

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.

Together, Painful, Back Together, Thing, Back

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.

Crazy, Fine, Life, Normal, Wobbling

Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.

Abandon, Distorting, Fans, Individual, Nature, Responsibility

Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing.

Changes, Guitar, Mean, Rhyme

For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.

Different, Media, Military, Past, Underground

I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.

Bible, Like, Pass, Read, Sustenance, Trying

For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!

Needs, Rapper, Seemed, Sex, Stories, True

Consequence is no coincidence.

Coincidence, Consequence, Hip Hop, Rap

In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.

Children, Opportunity, World, Access, Child, Education

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.

Dream, Humanity, Product, Real, Say, Suffer

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