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"One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth."
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"When coming to making kids: Size doesn't count, it's sperm count that counts."
"Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent."
"But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete."
"Most people put off my mother's erratic behavior to the fact that she was a writer, as if that just explained everything. To me that was just an excuse. I mean, brain surgeons can be crazy too, but no one says that's all right. Fortunately for my mother, I am alone in this opinion."
"LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred."
"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."
"All happy families resemble one another every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
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"Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God."
"There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people."
"I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists."
"Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential."
"As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this."
"That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to."
"You know what, I'm probably one of the most blessed people there's ever been, and I thank God for it."
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