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Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.
Mary J. Blige
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Mary J. Blige
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 11
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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’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 like French fries I like mashed. I love potatoes.
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It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.
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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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You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.
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Yonkers made me strong and made me believe in myself, because so many people would doubt you and not believe. There are people that would believe in you, but the environment was so harsh, nobody wanted you to get out, you know?
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We are all just a work in progress.
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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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It's up to us to choose whether we win or lose...and I choose to win.
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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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From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business I couldn't see that.
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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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You know a lot, but you don't know everything.
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When you're going to do whatever you're going to do, you have to get your, put your mind into it.
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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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Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.
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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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I'm searching for a real love.
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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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