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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.

Chaka Khan

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Chaka Khan
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 23
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Chicago
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Yvette Marie Stevens
Rufus & Chaka Khan
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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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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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If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.
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