"Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul,"

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Source : "Teena Marie, Known as 'Ivory Queen of Soul,' Dies", www.foxnews.com. December 27, 2010.

Teena Marie

#Artist Quotes #Race Quotes #White Quotes

“A girl in the convertible is worth five in the phone book.”
“Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time , What Dreams May Come is the story of a love which transcends death . ... I feel that they represent the best writing I have done in the novel form.”

Source : "Somewhere in Time". Book by Richard Matheson, p. 318 - 319, 1998.
“Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes.”
“Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.”
“You see something or hear a sound, and there you have everything just as it is. [...] Whatever you do, it should be an expression of the same deep activity. We should appreciate what we are doing. There is no preparation for something else.”
“Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.”
“Don't stop imagining. The day that you do is the day that you die.”

Source : Song: 17, Album: The Year Of Hibernation
“The heart wants what the heart wants”

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