288 Quotes by Jill Scott

A nutritionist has told me to have very little butter and very little spices, but I can't live like that.

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.

Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.

Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.

All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.

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

Ain’t nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt....

Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.

A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.