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I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.

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Chaka Khan
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 23
Composer
Jazz Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Chicago
Illinois
Yvette Marie Stevens
Rufus & Chaka Khan
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Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.
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The bickering and fighting and hating that women do with each other - it's going to kill us as a race of people.
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I won't become a household word, or achieve the fame I deserve in my lifetime because of the way I look.
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I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.
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Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin.
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I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do.
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If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.
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I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion.
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Your moment of clarity comes when you face your fears. Sobriety gave me back me - my life. Self-medication kills you slowly. You can never get a handle on that. It's a highly destructive force that has to be dealt with on a spiritual level as much as a physical one.
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My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
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Every personal experience of my life impacts my music.
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I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - I'm my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don't feel successful. I'm nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals.
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There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.
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If I love a song, I make it mine.
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But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.
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Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.
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I have some scars... lots of internal ones. But they're all scabbed over.
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