Quotes from India.Arie

I will be patient, kind, faithful and true To a man who loves music a man who loves art Respect's the spirit world and thinks with his heart

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.

Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken.

The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real.

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.

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.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

If he ever left me, I wouldn't even be sad; no, 'cause there's a blessing in every lesson, and I'm glad that I knew him at all.

It's always sad to me when certain people are excluded from being considered beautiful... because of someone else's expectation. That bothers me.

It doesn't cost a thing to smile.

There's hope. It doesn't cost a thing to smile. You don't have to pay to laugh. You better thank God for that.

Because you never know where life is gonna take you, And you can't change where you've been, But today, I have the opportunity to choose.

The only thing constant in the world is change, that's why today I take life as it comes.

Success is clarity of my intention....and reaching that intention while being true to myself and with joy.

I have, my whole life, been healing the girl inside, the part of me that struggles about being a female in the world. That's why I write about the things I write about.

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

I heard a voice that told me I'm essential. How all my fears are limiting my potential. Said it's time to step into the light and use every bit of power i have inside.

Break the Shell": "Child, it's time to break the shell Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself You cannot fly until you break the shell.

I'm not the average girl from your video and I ain't built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because i am a queen

Go on and love yourself, cause everything's gonna be alright.

Things that I'm afraid to do are always about being afraid of being exposed. Every time, that's what it's always about.

Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree

The truth, it needs no proof. Either it is or it isn't.

There aint no substitute for the truth, either it is or it isnt. You see the truth it needs no proof, either it is or it isnt. And you know the truth by the way you feel.