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Jill Scott

American

April 4, 1972

Musician

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I need my man to be my homie.

Tags: Man Need

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My stepfather was a very nasty individual.

Tags: Very Individual Nasty

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To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

Tags: Thing Powerful Queen

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

Tags: People Known African

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

Tags: Business Does Learned

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All man-made religions are limited. I go my own way.

Tags: Way Go Own

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

Tags: Think Myself Person

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I could float in the pool for hours, just letting the water carry me.

Tags: Me Just Could

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

Tags: Food Up He

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I'm sorry that 'Fringe' is gone. I really wanted to do more on that show. It was great!

Tags: Great More Really

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God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.

Tags: God Always He

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

Tags: Me Person Whole

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.

Tags: Graduation Being See

I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.

Tags: People Like About

People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.

Tags: Nature People About

'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.

Tags: Science Love Television

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.

Tags: Me Had Would

My heart and prayers go out to all single moms because it's tough, and I can't imagine any teenager dealing with a baby and all those hormones raging.

Tags: Because Out Go

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.

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'Saturday Night Live' is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

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Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place.

Tags: War Just More

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.

Tags: Me Every Where

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.'

Tags: You Me Like

I'm going to do as much as I can with this life, and then I'm going to make sure to take some time off and be simple and ride my bike and hang out with friends.

Tags: Time Out Life

I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started. That's the point of poetry. You're supposed to go, 'Hmmmm,' and 'Woooh!'

Tags: Poetry You Get

I've done a lot of fighting in my time, and I'm down to do some more. I don't want to, but you know, there's just certain things that you can't sit down and take.

Tags: Time You Just

I'd love to work with Missy Elliott. I'd love to work with Bonnie Raitt. I'd love, love, love to work with Barbra Streisand. I'm reaching, because why not? You don't know what's going to happen in this life.

Tags: Work You Because

I'm looking for someone who works as hard as I do. Who loves their work as much as I do, so at the end of the night we have something real to talk about, something exciting that makes our blood flow and boil.

Tags: Work About Who

When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.

Tags: Famous People Because

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.

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The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.

Tags: Good You People

I just want to continue to grow, as an actor, and dig. Hopefully, one day, I'll lose myself in a role. My only worry about that is that I just want to be able to come back home. I don't want to get lost forever. That scares me.

Tags: Home Me About

If I feel really ugly or unhappy, sometimes I'll choose bright colors so they'll make me feel good. Yellows, pinks, light blues and orange. I just want to feel good all the time if I can. And colors and hairstyles and all that kind of helps out.

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A woman is more than the sum of her parts. So I had an opportunity to present some work at the White House. I chose not just to talk about the sky, the planet, love or heartache. I wanted to actually be there, to place a mark on that moment.

Tags: Work About Just

My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought 'The Wiz' soundtrack was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. It was my first record and you had Michael Jackson, Ted Ross, Nipsey Russell and Diana Ross on it. I even took it to show and tell in third grade!

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My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch.

Tags: You Me Just