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" In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad. "

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" I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on. "

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Ego

" My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church. "

Whitney Houston

Singer

Church

" I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait. "

" I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe. "

" Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody. "

" I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside. "

" God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there? "

Whitney Houston

You

Voice

" I've always been a thin girl. I'm not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay? "

" I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die. "

" You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you. "

" I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have. "

" I'm the kind of person, if, if I have a day that is nerve-wracking, or my week has been bad or something's going down, I won't eat. Some people eat, I don't eat. And it shows in my physical frame. "

" My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it. "

" I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that! You do. "

Whitney Houston

Right

You

" I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways. "

" I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first. "

" I'm good where I am at this moment. "

Whitney Houston

Moment

I Am

" Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe. "

" What's in your soul is in your soul. "

Whitney Houston

Soul

Your

" I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants. "

Whitney Houston

World

Woman

" I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy. "

" I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them. "

Whitney Houston

Done

Down

" No one makes me do anything I don't want to do. "

Whitney Houston

Makes

Anything

" I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me. "

" When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life. "

" I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair. "

" From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it. "

" I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be. "

" My daughter is my greatest inspiration. "

" Loneliness comes with life. "

Whitney Houston

Life

Loneliness