Chaka Khan
But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.Collection: Respect
I like to work spontaneously.
I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do.
Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.
Walking through this life really is walking through fire.
If I love a song, I make it mine.
I've always struggled so much just to appreciate myself.
My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.
You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody.
I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.
I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.
Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.
I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.
Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.
When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.
In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.
I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.
Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.
I remember seeing the movie 'To Sir With Love' when I was a little girl.
One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out.
To me, this degree was an acknowledgment of my work in music.
You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings.Collection: Heart
You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings. ... You can't argue with the universe. It's not about that. It's more about relaxing and knowing that you can handle it and feeling empowered. Knowing you have the power to do whatever the hell you want to do. That's what it's about. It really is.Collection: Heart
As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.Collection: Fire
It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.Collection: Media
The bickering and fighting and hating that women do with each other - it's going to kill us as a race of people.Collection: Hate
If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place.Collection: Related
I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - I'm my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don't feel successful. I'm nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals.Collection: Running
Your moment of clarity comes when you face your fears. Sobriety gave me back me - my life. Self-medication kills you slowly. You can never get a handle on that. It's a highly destructive force that has to be dealt with on a spiritual level as much as a physical one.Collection: Spiritual
I'm a woman and I'm a backbone...everybody needs one.Collection: Needs
I want to give some positive messages and to empower some people.Collection: People
I would have been an archaeologist or something, maybe a historian. There are a lot of things I would have liked to have done differently, but everything that happened to me made me the person I am today. No matter how negative it seemed at the time or whatever hardship it seemed to have been at that time, Im just the sum of all those amazing experiences.Collection: Today
When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.Collection: Horse
I have some scars... lots of internal ones. But they're all scabbed over.Collection: Scar
Every personal experience of my life impacts my music.Collection: Impact
Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin.Collection: Art
A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy. It's a false thing. It's like a lullaby as opposed to a gun. People need to be slapped into reality and music just doesn't do that.Collection: Song
If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.Collection: Prison
Every personal experience of my life impacts my music. I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back. I often fix it or color it differently or give it in my way, but thats what its about.Collection: Impact
If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.Collection: Fighting
I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion.Collection: Morning
I won't become a household word, or achieve the fame I deserve in my lifetime because of the way I look.Collection: Looks
I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back.Collection: Giving
I'm an extremely determined person. I'm very serious about what I do.Collection: Serious
America breeds ambition and while that can be a good thing, sometimes it's not. Ambition also breeds competition and that can be a very bad thing. People become chronically preoccupied with competing and don't know when to stop. It can become unhealthy.Collection: Ambition
There is no perfect love - that's something I'm very realistic about.Collection: Perfect
My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.Collection: Mother
But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.Collection: Song
I loved him [Prince], the world loved him.Now he's at peace with his Father.Rest in power, Prince , my brother.Collection: Brother