Quotes from India Arie

You deal with what comes to you. If it's something you don't like, you deal with it the best you can. If it's something that you love, you rise to the occasion.

What I love about Stevie Wonder is the way he makes people feel. He's one of the best examples of how music can heal.

I always have something by Stevie Wonder in my CD player.

Could a person really make a social contribution through music consciously? I mean, beyond making a person happy to hear the song and more making a social contribution consciously through your music? For me, Stevie Wonder is the paragon of that. And I didn't want to be Stevie Wonder, but I did want to do what he does.

I want my music to be a contribution, and I want the people who love me on Earth and in Heaven to be proud of who I am, and I want to be proud of myself, and I don't want to look back and say, 'Oh God, why did I say that?'

There's a difference in being opinionated and judgmental; I'm still trying to figure out what that fine line is - I think we are all.

I don't really consider myself a teacher. I think - like, I have opinions like everyone else, and I just share my opinions.

It's cool to hear my songs on the radio. But for me, that's just a way to get more people to have the option of choosing my music.

It's not my place to say how Zoe Saldana perceives herself, and I can't say how anybody else perceives her, either. I see her as a black person of Hispanic origin, but I don't even know what that really means, because I don't know anything about race and Hispanic culture.

I had been on what seemed to be a hiatus to the outside world, but I was actually working very hard on my health, my emotional health, and my business.

Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

I've been trying to arrive at a person who is self-defined and able to make my own mistakes rather than having other people make them for me.

Every once in a while, I find something that I'm interested in just because of the singing, like the Goo Goo Dolls.

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

Nobody looked like me when I was growing up. None of the kids were as big as me, or as serious as me, or listened to the same music.

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