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" I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian faith, but I became much more active in it when I married my first husband, Marvin. I changed from Episcopalian to Baptist. "

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" Like my father, I don't want to see anyone mistreated, anything like that. I'm very racial-conscious because my father had a lot of, you know, challenges in the area of race. I'm very sensitive to that kind of issue. "

Natalie Cole

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" I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it. "

" If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive. "

" I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life. "

" I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary. "

" Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing. "

Natalie Cole

Daughter

Lot

" I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.' "

" I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records. "

" People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way. "

" A lot of people want to donate a kidney, but they're not in a position to because they have health issues of their own, and a lot of people need them. That's why the list is long and it takes a long time. "

" I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted. "

" I'd sometimes fly for 14 hours, then go straight to dialysis. I spent a little time being tired, but we managed. I'm not a pity-party person. "

Natalie Cole

Sometimes

Person

" My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure. "

" I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about. "

Natalie Cole

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Parents

" I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it. "

" I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off. "

" By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop. "

" We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away. "

" We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways. "

" I was going to college to be a doctor. "

" I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico. "

" I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances. "

" I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.' "

" We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far. "

Natalie Cole

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" There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it. "

" My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life. "

Natalie Cole

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Led

" The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning. "

" Las Vegas has the type of audience - and they haven't changed since my father's days - they're still boring and bored. And there's only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to. "

" I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must be a very nice person'. "

" I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney. "