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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you."
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"I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out."
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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there."
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"My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?"
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"I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to."
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"Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse."
Music
"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."
Singing
"My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!"
Mother
"Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song."
Musicians
"I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician."
Church
"I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist."
Thought
"Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz."
Music
"There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have."
Memory
"I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice."
Artist
"Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal."
African
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