"We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right."
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"Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it."
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"Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening."
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"Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees."
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"I'm a big woman. I need big hair."
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"I sing to the realists, people who accept it like it is. I express problems. There are tears when it's sad and smiles when it's happy. It seems simple to me, but for some people, I guess feelin' takes courage."
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"If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?"
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"People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don't let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you."
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"Being the Queen is not all about singing and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well."
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"Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!"
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"Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off."
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"R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me."
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"My faith always has been and always will be important to me."
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"Better friends than lovers. Sugar can't you see? You need you and I really need me."
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"I've been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well."
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"As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy."
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"Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it."
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"Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that."
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"When God loves you, what can be better than that?"
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"Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats."
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