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Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.
Aretha Franklin
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Aretha Franklin
Age: 76 †
Born: 1942
Born: March 25
Died: 2018
Died: August 16
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Aretha Louise Franklin
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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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I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.
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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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It's so glamorous, you have to see it. (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
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I sing to the realists people who accept it like it is.
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People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don't let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you.
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When God loves you, what can be better than that?
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.
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Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
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My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.
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