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Anita Baker Quotes

I think there's no sacrifice too great for family, whether it's career, singing, whatever.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 26, 1958

Topics

Family Great Sacrifice Singing Think

It became motivation as opposed to something else - the thing about poverty is that it starts affecting your mind and your spirit because people don't see you. I chose from a very young age that I didn't want that for my life. And it very much has helped me appreciate and value the things that are in my life now because I never had it.

Life Age Value People Mind Me

Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It was done for entertainment. Most white people didn't know anything about this because prejudice kept them from ever seeing what was going on.

Money People Black Seeing White

The six of us gathered at my house, and we walked to the polls. I'll never forget it. Not a Negro was on the streets, and when we got to the courthouse, the clerk said he wanted to talk with us. When we got into his office, some 15 or 20 armed white men surged in behind us - men I had grown up with, had played with.

Men Never Forget House White Forget

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

John Jay Chapman

Someone Opinions Find Earth Want He

I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.

Child Want Become Disease Did

I see good personal financial management as setting - and keeping - a budget.

Good Management Financial Budget See

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

America Veterans More Years Than

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.

God Today People World You Trouble

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Leadership Character Matters

We're talking about growing up in regular families, dreaming about better things, instead of popping bottles in the club and spending a lot of money that you don't have while living in your mother's basement.

Lukas Forchhammer

Mother Money Growing Up Better You

Ensuring preschool education for all and investing more in public schools is essential if the U.S. is to avoid becoming a neo-feudal country where advantages and disadvantages are passed on from one generation to the next.

Joseph Stiglitz

Education Generation Country More

I have no desire to get on a soapbox or be preachy. I don't think comedy needs to be 'brave' or 'important.'

You Gym Now Room Lord Rings

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