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You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.
Mary J. Blige
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Mary J. Blige
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 11
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Mary Jane Blige
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You have to have a plan. Everything has to be planned. For me, I start with the title of my album, before I even start with the songs. I write down different things that I want album to say, and then the songs come from the different words.
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Cause I'm no better than you, you, or you. And I can't get on no throne and preach, 'cause I'm not God.
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As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me they were always scared that somebody was going to take me.
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I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.
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I like what I see when I'm looking at me when I'm walking past the mirror.
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It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.
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When I`m going to do a Christmas album I had to put my mind in Christmas mode. I had to go back to being a child and remembering all of that. When I go to do a project, I'm serious about it, so I wrap my world around it, and it becomes Christmastime for me and I'm singing songs like it's Christmas day.
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If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.
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I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.
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Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!
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I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.
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It's OK showing yourself some love.
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The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.
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Don't go a full day or night without washing your face. You have to get all the dirt and makeup out of your pores.
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I cannot save the world, that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to walk the walk and be an example to those that want it. Not everybody does, but if Mary J Blige can come out of that same hole you were in, then you can do it too - that's my goal: to do that without saying it, but actually live it.
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I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.
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There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.
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I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.
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In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.
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I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'.
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