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" A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself. "

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" You're always in a blessed position if you have a great success story, especially to be in a position to be able to tell it so people can even understand. "

" I want to live. I didn't have time to die. "

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" I'm in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife. "

" I'm hoping that somehow with songs like 'American Gold' there will be some kind of justice, and people just stop being so close-minded to where they're like, 'Oh, it's not race.' It's easy to say that when you're not black and you haven't experienced it. "

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" In life, when you lose anyone, there's always an adjustment period - emotionally, mentally and physically. "

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" Everything happens the way it's supposed to because it's just like cavemen - you evolve and grow and learn. "

" I've worked in the studio with a lot of young girls, and they'll go, 'Oh, the label is telling me to take off my clothes, and I don't feel comfortable.' Well if you don't feel comfortable, don't do it. "

" I grew up around guys and got along with them better. "

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" I have to thank God for bringing me through and allowing me to continue to do charitable work for other sick children suffering with sickle cell. "

" No matter what, everyone will go through a disagreement - that's what makes us all different. "

" Great music, timeless music is hard to come by, but there are some that are like that. "

" We were always authentic when it came to our style. From when we started to the height of our fame, we've always been consistent in our look because how we dressed was a result of how we felt. We weren't playing dress-up. "

" I have learned to smile when I wasn't happy, to sing when I didn't feel like it, and to do things just to please my fans. "

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" I'm not ashamed of anything I've done, because if I feel ashamed, I'm not going to do it in the first place. "

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