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"My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself."
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"People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you."
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"My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist."
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"I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world."
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"The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name."
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do."
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"I loved my mother, she's a good girl."
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"Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children."
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"I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me."
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"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."
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"I figured I could do It's A Man's Man's Man's World, because I believe it's the truth."
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"Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person."
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"My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself."
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"It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation."
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"I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture."
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"I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind."
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"I sing the songs that people need to hear."
People

"Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't."
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"They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something."
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"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."
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