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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.

Diana Ross

You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.
DIANA ROSS

Believe End Need Yourself
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.
DIANA ROSS

Cry Emotion Myself People Wonder
Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it’s show business. You know, we all got rhythm.
DIANA ROSS

Best Black Business People Rhythm Sports Yourself
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.
DIANA ROSS

Color Discrimination Judge Myself People Person Skin
I really think I want to live in a lot of places.I don’t want possessions to hold me down.
DIANA ROSS

Hold Live Myself Place Possession Thinking
I am in prayer for his kids and the family.
DIANA ROSS

Children Family Myself Prayer
What’s important for me is to give my daughters a well-rounded education and a mixture of people in their lives. They’ll make their own choices. I think they would be good in show business.
DIANA ROSS

Business Daughter Education Important Live Myself
Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary.
DIANA ROSS

Discipline Help Necessary Tools
If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die Dreams see us through to forever Where clouds roll by For you and I.
DIANA ROSS

Cloud Dreams Forever Hold On Known Myself Togetherness Yourself
I listen to most everything that’s out there because I need to stay aware of what’s happening in the industry.
DIANA ROSS

Industry Listening Myself Need Stay
You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
DIANA ROSS

Determination Dreams Hard Work Inspirational People Yourself
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.
DIANA ROSS

Carry Emotion Happiness Health Myself Worry
People can take your name and write a book about you and they make money off of it. How is the public supposed to know you’re not authorizing that book? As soon as you make a big stink about it it only makes the book sell more.
DIANA ROSS

Book Name People Sales Writing Yourself
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.
DIANA ROSS

Change Music Myself Old People Time
I just appreciate still having the longevity that I’ve had in my career.
DIANA ROSS

Appreciation Career Gratitude Myself
I’d traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
DIANA ROSS

Home Insane Lonely Myself Success Travel

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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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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