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Teena Marie

"Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul."

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"Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul."

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"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"

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"The beauty of your soul depends on your thoughts more than what is going on around you."

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"The spark of light in the soul is beginning of self awareness."

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"The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it."

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"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."

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"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."

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"Brevity is the soul of wit."

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"I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."

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"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them."

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"My first album came out in 1979."
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"I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do."
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"I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother."
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"I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know."
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"There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him."
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"This is a gift. This is a gift from God. It's really like the old Biblical passage that talks about your body being a temple. That's not to say that I've never done anything but I've never abused myself. Never gone over the top for a long period of time."
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"I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what."
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"I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano."
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"I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A."
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"I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion."
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