Mary J. Blige: “I finally said ‘I’m amazing’. Because God said I’m amazing. When I was going through bad shit in my life, I started waking up and saying ‘Good Morning Gorgeous’. No matter what I was going through I would look in the mirror and say ‘Good Morning Gorgeous’. This person would chip me down, tear me down and made me look at myself like I was nothing. I would look at myself and say ‘I Love You, I Got You’. I never in my life was able to love myself so hard the way I love myself right now. Now I can say God loves me with conviction. The relationship I have with God is not church. The relationship I have is something that has opened the skies and allowed me to forgive my worst enemies and pray for my worst enemies. It makes me feel beautiful to be able to say Aight, that's cool and move on. I’m able to see beauty past hair color, fingernails and that shit. I wake up in the morning and I see myself for real. I’m not deceiving myself. I try hard to be my own best friend. No matter how many mistakes I made , I love the good, the bad, the ugly, all that Mary because I beat her up so bad because of what people said and thought about me. Because I beat little Mary down and I got older Mary overseeing us. I’m not beating us down anymore. No disrespect to anyone else, but we gotta take care of ourselves”