- Musician | March 27, 1970 -
Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
Mariah Carey
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My brother and sister had a much worse childhood, I think, because they were older, and they had to deal with a lot more racism because they grew up in the '70s and I grew up more in the '80s. So they had to deal with crosses being burned on their lawn and their dogs being poisoned.
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I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.
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I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.
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I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.
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If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.
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My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.
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It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.
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I'm not vain, I'm insecure.
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My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.
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I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.
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I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.
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