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I do consider myself part of black history.

Mary J. Blige

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Mary J. Blige
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 11
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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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As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.
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Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.
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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 here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.
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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've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.
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Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.
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I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.
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I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.
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You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.
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It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.
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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 barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
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I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.
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When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.
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Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.
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As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday.
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I don't know what kind of God the rest of y'all are serving, but the God I serve says, 'Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I'm gonna make sure you're doing that.'
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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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