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I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that.

Mary J. Blige

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Mary J. Blige
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 11
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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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This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I'm no better and no worse, I'm just like you.
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Sometimes I frown and I don't realise it.
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Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.
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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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In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.
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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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I like what I see when I'm looking at me when I'm walking past the mirror.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, 'Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?' Yes, I'm going to make a mistake. Yes, I'm still gonna do things.
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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 started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.
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God loves me and sent his son to die for me so I have to live to please him because he saved me when everyone abandoned me.
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