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Anita Baker

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

— Anita Baker art

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

— Anita Baker food

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

— Anita Baker family

My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'

— Anita Baker family

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

— Anita Baker life

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

— Anita Baker age

As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.

— Anita Baker time

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

— Anita Baker pain

I think there's no sacrifice too great for family, whether it's career, singing, whatever.

— Anita Baker family

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

— Anita Baker sin

I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be the mother, daughter, sister, lover, wife. And the thing about music is, with me, that she's a harsh mistress. She does not come to me in the midst of stress.

— Anita Baker love

Oh my goodness, they are rocking so many variations of my high-top fade. I mean, Rihanna has taken it to a very angular 21st Century thing. Miss Fantasia has it in a very seductive, you know, up-flip, and it's just lovely, right? Oh, I think it's wonderful.

— Anita Baker love

We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.

— Anita Baker love

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

— Anita Baker age

Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do.

— Anita Baker god

Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best.

— Anita Baker crazy

I don't think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

— Anita Baker you

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

— Anita Baker problems

I need my career. That's what validates me.

— Anita Baker need

I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.

— Anita Baker lies

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

— Anita Baker money

I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift.

— Anita Baker love

I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.

— Anita Baker school

It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.

— Anita Baker parents

Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.

— Anita Baker art

Completeness? Happiness? These words dont come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

— Anita Baker art

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