My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
DIANA ROSSI majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I’m just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.
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So every time I make a new circuit, a new time around, then I change the show. You can’t change the songs; people still want to hear “Lady Sings the Blues” and they still want to hear some of the oldies.
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Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it’s show business. You know, we all got rhythm.
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You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.
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So I’m not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I’m happy that I have them; I think it’s good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.
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I’d traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
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I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
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It’s easier for me to sit with the producers and the writers and I give them my feelings and my thoughts and what I think I feel like singing about and then they go away and write it.
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I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.
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I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.
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You can have a lot of New York and still see what’s going on in the rest of the world, I think – like in China.
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I don’t judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they’re a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.
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I have never gotten into the label thing.
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All my gowns have trains on them. I make a train that goes on forever. I love long trains and then I stand there and twirl around and wrap myself up in it.
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I don’t have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.
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