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I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.
— Mary J. Blige
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.
— Mary J. Blige
There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.
— Mary J. Blige
I don't have any health problems, but to keep your health improves your quality of life.
— Mary J. Blige
I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.
— Mary J. Blige
The streets respect me because I kept it real with me. You gotta be real with yourself, and the streets recognize game.
— Mary J. Blige
I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.
— Mary J. Blige
As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.
— Mary J. Blige
My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me.
— Mary J. Blige
I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.
— Mary J. Blige
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.
— Mary J. Blige
You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.
— Mary J. Blige
The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.
— Mary J. Blige
If you're not confident in yourself, you're going to waver. I've wavered, and I've lost.
— Mary J. Blige
When I was little, like 7 to 15, there was nothing I wanted to do but go to church and go to school.
— Mary J. Blige
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.'
— Mary J. Blige
I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.
— Mary J. Blige
When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.
— Mary J. Blige
'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.
— Mary J. Blige
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.
— Mary J. Blige
My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest.
— Mary J. Blige
'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
— Mary J. Blige
We are all just a work in progress.
— Mary J. Blige
As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday.
— Mary J. Blige
My first album is playful.
— Mary J. Blige
I listen to gospel music.
— Mary J. Blige
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.
— Mary J. Blige
Your circumstances do not make you who you are!
— Mary J. Blige
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.
— Mary J. Blige
I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.
— Mary J. Blige
When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.
— Mary J. Blige
It's OK showing yourself some love.
— Mary J. Blige
Sometimes I frown and I don't realise it.
— Mary J. Blige
Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.
— Mary J. Blige
I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.
— Mary J. Blige
Larry David makes me laugh.
— Mary J. Blige
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.
— Mary J. Blige
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.
— Mary J. Blige
I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.
— Mary J. Blige
I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.
— Mary J. Blige
If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.
— Mary J. Blige
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.
— Mary J. Blige
When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.
— Mary J. Blige
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.
— Mary J. Blige
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.
— Mary J. Blige
I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.
— Mary J. Blige
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.
— Mary J. Blige
And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.
— Bryan Ferry
You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.
— Mary J. Blige
It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes ... It's life.
— Mary J. Blige
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.
— Mary J. Blige
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.
— Mary J. Blige
Two hurt people can not help each other. They can not.
— Mary J. Blige
I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because ... maybe ... that's the thing I've been searching for.
— Mary J. Blige
It's that first step-getting out the door-that's the toughest. If you can do that, you've already won.
— Mary J. Blige
For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself.
— Mary J. Blige
I'm searching for a real love.
— Mary J. Blige
I just love food, period.
— Mary J. Blige
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.
— Mary J. Blige
If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'
— Mary J. Blige
I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige.
— Robin Thicke
I do consider myself part of black history.
— Mary J. Blige
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.
— Mary J. Blige
I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.
— Ashthon Jones
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.
— Mary J. Blige
I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.
— Mary J. Blige
Believe in yourself when nobody else does.
— Mary J. Blige
When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.
— Mary J. Blige
I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.
— Patti LaBelle
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.
— Mary J. Blige
You know a lot, but you don't know everything.
— Mary J. Blige
I've never been a mean person.
— Mary J. Blige
When you're going to do whatever you're going to do, you have to get your, put your mind into it.
— Mary J. Blige
I truly enjoy Bono. I think he is an amazing person; I love him.
— Mary J. Blige
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.
— Mary J. Blige
I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.
— Mary J. Blige
Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live.
— Mary J. Blige
I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.
— Mary J. Blige
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.
— Mary J. Blige
I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.
— Mary J. Blige
When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.
— Mary J. Blige