I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.
ARETHA FRANKLINMusic 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.
More Aretha Franklin Quotes
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Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.
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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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I don’t feel one’s personal medical condition is everybody’s business. It just isn’t something you advertise, and it’s not open to discussion.
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I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.
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I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
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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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If a song’s about something I’ve experienced or that could’ve happened to me it’s good. But if it’s alien to me, I couldn’t lend anything to it. Because that’s what soul is all about.
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I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That’s the hardest thing more than anything else.
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We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.
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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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And I’ve been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I’m an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin’on sixty-five.
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The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.
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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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I’m a big woman. I need big hair.
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Let’s start with the church. As you know, it’s my background, it’s a natural setting for me and it’s definitely my roots.
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