Quotes from Mary J. Blige

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

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.

I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself.

I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'

There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.

'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.

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.

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!

If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me.

I think women should band together to get us more respect in all the businesses that we're in because, you know, if we turn 40, we're nothing and nobody. We all should band together and just say we're not gonna go down like that.

Without your health, everything else means nothing.

I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.

I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet.

I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.

I don't have any health problems, but to keep your health improves your quality of life.

It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.

I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.

It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.