Jill Scott Quotes

When I got my success I became decadent for a while. This was 2003 to 2008. I fell for tiramisu really hard. I've become more moderate since, because African-Americans are prone to diabetes.

One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And I said, oh, boy. I like this.

My stepfather was a very nasty individual.

I was conceived after doctors told my mother she'd never have children. I'm a miracle - we all are.

A nutritionist has told me to have very little butter and very little spices, but I can't live like that.

I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.

For a writer it's a dream to sit and watch people as close as possible.

I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.

I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.

Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.

I truly loved being pregnant and feeling what was going on inside my body and watching it change. It's difficult to recoup, but still amazing nonetheless. I would have another one.

There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.

Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.

A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

When you get a jean for a larger girl, you have to have them tailored for you. Tailoring is indeed everything.

My only job is to be happy. So for everybody that cares about me and is not trying to be all up in a celebrity's business, just know that I'm happy. My son is happy. We enjoy our lives.

I think what irks me is that I feel like women are really being compartmentalized physically, and it's been done so much that now we're doing it to ourselves. I don't like it.

Nikki Giovanni! I got a book of hers from the library, and there was this woman who could paint me on paper with words - my whole little experience. I thought it was wonderful.

I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.

I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.

'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.

I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'

In Philadelphia, you are welcome, and that's The City of Brotherly Love. I think that makes us culturally thick and sound, so you can experience all kinds of cultural authenticity.

People think that lemon is good for the voice, but it dries it out.

That's what I enjoy most about my music, that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.

I am more spiritual than religious.

I am a woman, I make mistakes. I make them often. God has given me a talent and that's it.

I don't write on demand - I wait for inspiration to come.

I just think fashion is about enjoying yourself and being comfortable in your skin and allowing you to be you - all the way live.

I love foods that start in my cheeks and then vibrate up.

I'm a girl who enjoys a great meal with great friends, so I'm not really that concerned about weight loss.

There's a certain level of realness in Philly. You know, just - people are people. You know, it doesn't matter who you are or who you think you are, you're just a person in Philly.

There are black marriages that are still going strong 40 years later. You hear so many myths that there aren't any people making it, but there are. As long as there are some, there's hope.

I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.

I do want love. Genuine love.

One of the reasons my ex-husband and I broke up is that he stopped eating my food.

When you have a cast and crew of people who make it light hearted and crack jokes, and break treats, and understand that we are all in this together. That's a biggest plus that you can have.

I love when I am around a veteran in [show] business. Because I can dig and ask questions, and find out the "who" and "what" of it all.

Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.

African people worldwide are known to be welcoming and open-minded.

Every community needs a rec center.

I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.

There are a lot of difficulties with people trying to conceive.

I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

I defy any woman who is pregnant and trying to concentrate really hard not to feel distracted.

I need my man to be my homie.

I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because that's what connects you with the world. That's what makes it juicy!