"Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm."
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"My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy."
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"I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money."
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"I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because I've learned that it's important for them to stand on their own two feet. They'll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do."
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"I lived on the north side of Detroit. Right down the street from me there was a young man by the name of Smokey Robinson. I was very proud to live down the street from him because he was our only celebrity in town. He was singing with the Miracles."
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"If I'm with a man I'm soft and buttery."
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"I don't care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me."
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"I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person."
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"Hair has always been important."
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"Being a parent is very important to me."
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"I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place."
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"The only recording studio was in Motown - it was called Tamla/Motown at that time and we used to audition there because Smokey Robinson was at that studio and Berry Gordy was the president. I remember asking Smokey to listen to my group and he did. For the first couple of years we were just singing background. We used to back up Marvin Gaye; Mary Wells was there then, Marv Johnson, the Marvelettes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Junior Walker and the All-Stars."
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"I don't like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own."
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"It's not fair that our name can be used in any newspaper, any article connected with anything, and we can't really fight about it. It's like any newspaper that might take a picture of you, bad or good, and sometimes they're awful pictures, and they can use them without your approval and you can't do anything about it."
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"I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing."
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"So every time I make a new circuit, a new time around, then I change the show. You can't change the songs; people still want to hear "Lady Sings the Blues" and they still want to hear some of the oldies."
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"I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly."
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"I have a lust for life."
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"My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer, the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems."
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"The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'"
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