103 Quotes by India Arie

I've spent my entire life trying to figure out why I was different than everybody else. Why is my voice so deep? Why am I so muscular?

When I was growing up, I only saw really brown people on 'The Cosby Show,' and they were rich, and their parents were doctors. It wasn't like my home.

Sound is energy, and that energy resonates with your energy. And it gives you a certain feeling.

I love my brownness.

I didn't even listen to Bob Marley until I was 17.

In hindsight, I feel like I made the right decision to choose production that would get played on black radio.

There are a lot of men who like women with a brain.

One of the things that helped me to be confident is to be the kind of musician that I respect. I always liked musicians who wrote their own songs, and so I started writing my own songs.

I always have something by Stevie Wonder in my CD player.