Gladys Knight (Empress of Soul) Quotes

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four. I had people telling me how to preserve myself.

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• Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

  

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• Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

  

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• I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.

  

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• I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

  

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• You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.

  

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• I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

  

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• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

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• I'm very competitive, and I want to win.

  

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• There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

  

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• I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.

  

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• Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

  

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• My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.

  

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• Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

  

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• I'm fighting hard; I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going, and I would really like to give back, especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid.

  

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• Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

  

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• I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four. I had people telling me how to preserve myself.

  

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