Mary J. Blige

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

Mary J. Blige

As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me; they were always scared that somebody was going to take me.

Mary J. Blige

By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.

Mary J. Blige

Don’t give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don’t stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don’t ever say it’ll never happen.

Mary J. Blige

Don’t go a full day or night without washing your face. You have to get all the dirt and makeup out of your pores.

Mary J. Blige

Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

Mary J. Blige

For the first time in my life, I’m proud of myself.

Mary J. Blige

God comes first – if I don’t love him, I can’t love anybody, and if I can’t love me I can’t love nobody.

Mary J. Blige

God loves me and sent his son to die for me so I have to live to please him because he saved me when everyone abandoned me.

Mary J. Blige

Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.

Mary J. Blige