"My Mom always said 'Don't say if I make it, say WHEN I make it!'"

"You don't get a great voice from the color of your skin, you get it from your heart!"

"The happiness has to come from the inside. You can live in a palace and feel terrible, and as a homeless you can have somebody you love and who loves you."

"Being in the dark equalizes us all."

"People thought I was this little girl who was taken care of... The canary in a cage. In a way that's true (but) the cage was half paid for by me.""

"Never, never listen to anybody, when they try to discourage you; cause' they do that, believe me!"

"Anytime I get the chance to give back to my fans I do it because without them I wouldn't be here."

"I'm not one of those inherently skinny people, but I'm naturally pretty muscular. If I ate a lot every night, I'd get fat like anybody else. But if I don't love something, I won't eat it!"

"Having hits isn't always the most important thing."

"I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid."

"I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere."

"I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands."

"I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do."

"In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best."

"I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is."

"A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time."

"If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count."

"If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through."

"I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to."

"My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's."


 

 

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