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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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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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If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why 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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It's OK showing yourself some love.
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I’ve done well, I’ve been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It’s the music business. You are a business. That’s what they do. So you’ve got to protect yourself.
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I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.
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I do consider myself part of black history.
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There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.
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It's that first step-getting out the door-that's the toughest. If you can do that, you've already won.
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The important thing is to realize that no matter what people's opinions may be, they're only just that - people's opinions. You have to believe in your heart what you know to be true about yourself. And let that be that.
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No one compares to you. Just remember that. There's no one out there - there's only one of you, and that's it. And whatever you believe about you that's great, no one else has it. And I can't look like you, there's no way I can slip into your body and be you, and you can't slip into my body and be me. This is all we're gonna get.
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I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.
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Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.
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It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.
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By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.
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I'm searching for a real love.
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I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.
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You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.
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We are all just a work in progress.
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My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.
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