Feel Quotes

I listen to gospel music.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: Music Listen Gospel

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: About Being Kid

I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: Like Who Thinks

You know a lot, but you don't know everything.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: You Know Lot

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

Mary J. Blige

Tags: Music Just Life

Two hurt people can not help each other. They can not.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: People Other Two

I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: Like Love I Love

I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: Never Any Album

The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: Very Would She

When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: Truth You Your

I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: You Always Know

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

Mary J. Blige

Tags: Just Say Many

My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: You Because Know

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: You Made Keep

As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: Just Love Going

Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: You Going Something

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

Tags: You Life See

I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: God Me Because

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.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: You Really Your

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: Truth You Me

I'm a child of God. God is my mommy, my daddy. That's the only thing that'll keep my head up. If I don't remember who I am in him, I'm done.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: God Who Up

I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: Up Had Love

So many people are like, 'I'm perfect.' I'm so imperfect; that's why I'm able to let everything out and let people see everything. 'Cause I'm just a mess like every other person that's a mess out there.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: People Like Just

Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: Women Me Because

One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: You People Going

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: Government You Me

I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: Great Respect Marriage

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

Tags: Like Think More

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: Music God You

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'.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: You Like Think

So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, 'Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?' Yes, I'm going to make a mistake. Yes, I'm still gonna do things.

Mary J. Blige

Tags: You Like Because