Jill Scott famous quotes

04-29-2025

Ainâ€™t nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt....
-- Jill Scott

#Hurt #Sometimes #This Life
Everybody's looking for love, and you want to love somebody and be loved in return.
-- Jill Scott

#Looking For Love #Want #Return
To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.
-- Jill Scott

#Queens #Powerful #Home
If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.
-- Jill Scott

#Helping #Help Me #Grows
Find new treasures in yourself. Love doesn't die. Love is unyielding. It's going to come back. The more you love and appreciate yourself, the more prepared you are when the real thing shows up.
-- Jill Scott

#Real #Love Is #Appreciate
I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.
-- Jill Scott

#Thinking #Matter #Defining
I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?
-- Jill Scott

#Inspirational #Beautiful #Silly
Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.
-- Jill Scott

#Appreciate #Understanding #Forgiving
Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.
-- Jill Scott

#Mother #School #Journey
In order to grow emotionally and mentally, sometimes you have to grow physically as well. I'm just trying to grow, man, and always I just want to be the best and most confident me I can be.
-- Jill Scott

#Men #Order #Trying
Just bc u loved and lost doesn't mean stop loving. If u have a nightmare, does it mean u stop dreaming?
-- Jill Scott

#Dream #Mean #Doe
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.
-- Jill Scott

#Writing #Firsts
When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.
-- Jill Scott

#Mother #Growing Up #Museums
For me, hair is an accoutrement. Hair is jewelry. It's an accessory.
-- Jill Scott

#Hair #Accessories #Jewelry
I need to find creative diversity because if I get stuck, I get unhappy.
-- Jill Scott

#Diversity #Creative #Unhappy
I've been enjoying playing with fashion - gold grills and diamond grills have just become a part of that.
-- Jill Scott

#Fashion #Gold #Enjoy
I have a few caftans just for lounging purposes. When I want to feel free, it's the closest thing to feeling naked without being naked.
-- Jill Scott

#Feelings #Naked #Purpose
Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word.
-- Jill Scott

#Girl #Writing #Perspective
I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.
-- Jill Scott

#Years #May #Rhyming
Once I started looking for a record deal, I had a trainer. And the trainer told me that I would never sell a record if I didn't lose weight.
-- Jill Scott

#Records #Weight #Deals
When Jett puts my face in his hands and tells me, 'Mommy you're so pretty' or smells me, it's so wonderful.
-- Jill Scott

#Hands #Smell #Faces
My grill is intended to be discreet. It's there because I enjoy jewelry.
-- Jill Scott

#Jewelry #Enjoy
Every community needs a rec center.
-- Jill Scott

#Community #Needs
Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.
-- Jill Scott

#Community
Common is one of the nicest people I've ever met, and to describe him as a vile rapper because he has an opinion... just says a lot about the state of America. You are allowed to have an opinion in the United States - he's never harmed anybody, he just has an opinion about a president that wasn't good for our country.
-- Jill Scott

#Country #Rapper #America
Nothing has gotten me out of Philadelphia. I moved 20 minutes away from Philly. That's about it.
-- Jill Scott

#Philadelphia #Minutes #Moved
Our minds do understand that people of all races find genuine love in many places. We dig that the world is full of amazing options.
-- Jill Scott

#Race #People #Mind
I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.
-- Jill Scott

#Believe #Government #Love Relationship
I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don't do them at all.
-- Jill Scott

#Renaissance #Wells #Wanted

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