Author Profile
Mary J. Blige
1971 • American • Musician
60
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 60 quotes'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.— Mary J. Blige
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.— Mary J. Blige
I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.— Mary J. Blige
It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.— Mary J. Blige
I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.— 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.— Mary J. Blige
From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business, I couldn't see that.— Mary J. Blige
I can go out raw with nothing, and my fans would still be happy, but I feel that I owe it to them to give them almost like a Broadway musical at this point in my life. I have to give them something more, so I do have to think of different ways to do it.— Mary J. Blige
I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.— Mary J. Blige