Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.
WHITNEY HOUSTONBeing around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.
WHITNEY HOUSTONI believe that children are our future
WHITNEY HOUSTONIf I fail, if I succeed, at least I live as I believe.
WHITNEY HOUSTONMy name is not Susan, so watch what you say. If you still need her, then be on your way.
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.
WHITNEY HOUSTONI’m good where I am at this moment.
WHITNEY HOUSTONNever let your heart take precedence over reason, otherwise you will have problems.
WHITNEY HOUSTONI like being a woman, even in a man’s world. After all, men can’t wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.
WHITNEY HOUSTONI’m just fiercely protective. It’s like, that’s my lair and nobody messes with my lair.
WHITNEY HOUSTONI’ve always been a thin girl. I’m not going to be fat, ever. Let’s get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay?
WHITNEY HOUSTONNobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.
WHITNEY HOUSTONSometimes you’ll laugh. Sometimes you’ll cry. Life never tells us, the when’s or why’s. When you’ve got friends, to wish you well. You’ll find your point when. You will exhale.
WHITNEY HOUSTONI’m not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn’t do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don’t have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.
WHITNEY HOUSTONI almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.
WHITNEY HOUSTONI’ve got some good saints out there – that’s right – that pray for me constantly. You’ve gotta have that! You do.
WHITNEY HOUSTONYou get that love from the people. It lets me know that all the madness I go through, all the stuff that the business has to offer with all its madness; it makes it worthwhile.
WHITNEY HOUSTON