J Dilla Quotes

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

You shouldn't have to give things up for someone. If you love them someone, you should love them for everything they do and all that they are. I love acting and I wouldn't give it up for anything, and I don't know anyone in my life who would ask me to give it up.

I couldn't sacrifice my heart for a publicity stunt.

Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.

Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.

Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.

Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

When something's got to give, family always wins. I couldn't live with myself if it was the other way.

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.

I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.

Give me an authentic woman, and I'm happy.

Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.

While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.