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"I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America."
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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

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"To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing."

"I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling."

"I don't cry America. I do not cry. That was a once in a lifetime event. I do not cry, do you understand? I don't cry, okay?"
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"I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media."

"I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash."

"The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me."

"I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame."

"I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can."
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