I’ve turned down a lot of arena dates because I’ve done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.
WHITNEY HOUSTONIn grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.
More Whitney Houston Quotes
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I’ve got a good man. He takes care of me. I don’t have to be scared of anything because I know he will kick every ass… disrespect him and you’ve got a problem.
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I have a mother that’s very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.
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When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I’d be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.
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If I fail, if I succeed, at least I live as I believe.
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I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in trance. I just stared at the clock in the center of the church. When I finished, everyone clapped and started crying.
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Growing around great musicians, you just can’t help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that when I started singing, it was almost like speaking.
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Loneliness comes with life.
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My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.
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You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can’t fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you’ve got to be straight up with you.
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She’s my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.
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Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all.
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I’m a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.
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I believe that children are our future
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I feel so blessed to just have done what I had done. To be able to just use what God has given me is a blessing. You know, never mind the Grammys, never mind the records, never mind all of that. Just to be able to sing.
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I’m just fiercely protective. It’s like, that’s my lair and nobody messes with my lair.
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