I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.
ARETHA FRANKLINWomen have broken through the glass ceiling, and they’re now more and more in the power seats.
More Aretha Franklin Quotes
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Soul is a constant. It’s cultural. It’s always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.
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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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Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you’re doing. If you’re not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
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I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard any geniuses.
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I’m a big woman. I need big hair.
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I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey – like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.
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The milk of kindness flows through my body, I shall follow Jesus to the Taco Bell and give thanks.
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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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Music changes, and I’m gonna change right along with it.
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Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.
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If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody’s supposed to respect you?
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R&B is not a fad; it’s the truth.
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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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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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Gospel goes with me wherever I go. Gospel is a constant with me.
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