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" In life, you have to learn how to heal. You never get over stuff, but you have to learn how to heal. "
Tionne Watkins
You
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" I had to learn a lot about myself during the situation with my brain tumor. "
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" I get nervous as hell when it's time for the songs to come out. "
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" The interesting thing about the TLC network is that they were interested in following me, not leading me. "
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" When you Google someone's name, it matters to me what shows up. Not the lies, but like, did you change lives? Did you do something while you were here? "
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" I'm in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife. "
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" I've been through a lot with sickle-cell, but my recovery from the brain tumor was the hardest thing. "
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" I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that. "
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" Good music is good music. "
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" I'm not homophobic; I'm just not gay. "
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" 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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" I remember getting flowers and champagne for being one of the first black artists on MTV. That was a big deal. "
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" TLC always looked up to male bands. We saw guy groups could just go out and get the fans screaming by just standing there - fully clothed and with nothing but their music... We saw them as the competition more than the girl groups, with whom we wanted to stay unified. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" The doctors told me I could never have kids, but God blessed me anyway. "
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" Music is my heart. "
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" I got kicked out of four high schools just because people took issue with the colour of my skin. As if I could help the colour I was born. "
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" I get a lot of 'Oh, you've been gone.' I wasn't gone. Just because you didn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't working and collecting checks. I just wasn't singing and doing videos. I do a lot of other things, like I said, like writing scripts and stuff like that. I write for other artists. "
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" One thing, parents: you need to realize is you've got to stop letting artists raise your kids. You're the parent. Why don't you monitor what your child wears? Ariana Grande didn't sign on to be a role model. "
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" In life, when you lose anyone, there's always an adjustment period - emotionally, mentally and physically. "
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" It's amazing what miracles and little angels and pure love around you can bring out. "
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" Don't sit there and wallow in woe-is-me stuff that happened in your past. Move forward. Face whatever you're afraid of. Or deal with it. "
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