India Arie Quotes
You hear people sing songs about when they really can't stand anyone anymore or you hear people sing songs about when they really love someone and they really love them.
I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.
I feel very strongly in my opinion that everyone is responsible to themselves for what they do.
In the music industry it's just you're either Black or white, and this is the box you get put in.
I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak.
Things that I'm afraid to do are always about being afraid of being exposed. Every time, that's what it's always about.
Eating is not one of the things that I do now to deal with pain, because I don't ever want to do that. But I isolate myself, that's what I do.
It seems nobody really talks about what we do with our emotional pain. Only the ascendant perhaps, who have learned how to fully meditate or do yoga or whatever through their emotional pain.
In reality, on the grand scale, in my opinion... we are actually all responsible for each other.
I say everything and I do whatever I want to do. I'm just me. The polished version of me, I suppose, because I have on clothes and makeup. But emotionally, I am very on the surface.
I like when a teenager comes and talks to me on the street. I've been through a lot and I have a lot to share.
What is socially irresponsible, once again, is just all my opinion. But there are things that I don't think are cool.
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.
I'm still afraid of things, obviously - we're human. But I like that feeling of being afraid.
