Chaka Khan Quotes

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• You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings.

  Chaka Khan

  Heart, Warning, Path

  Source: www.today.com

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• You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings. ... You can't argue with the universe. It's not about that. It's more about relaxing and knowing that you can handle it and feeling empowered. Knowing you have the power to do whatever the hell you want to do. That's what it's about. It really is.

  Chaka Khan

  Heart, Knowing, Feelings

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.

  Chaka Khan

  Fire, Flames, Realizing

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• Walking through this life really is walking through fire.

  Chaka Khan

  Fire, This Life, Walking

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• It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

  Chaka Khan

  Media, Speaks Out, Careers

  "Chaka Khan records song for Trayvon Martin" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2012.

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• The bickering and fighting and hating that women do with each other - it's going to kill us as a race of people.

  Chaka Khan

  Hate, Fighting, Race

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• If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place.

  Chaka Khan

  Related, Ifs

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• But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.

  Chaka Khan

  Respect, Appreciate, How To Love

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• I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - I'm my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don't feel successful. I'm nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals.

  Chaka Khan

  Running, Taken, Successful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Your moment of clarity comes when you face your fears. Sobriety gave me back me - my life. Self-medication kills you slowly. You can never get a handle on that. It's a highly destructive force that has to be dealt with on a spiritual level as much as a physical one.

  Chaka Khan

  Spiritual, Self, Sobriety

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• I'm a woman and I'm a backbone...everybody needs one.

  Chaka Khan

  Needs, Backbone

  Song: I'm a Woman

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• I want to give some positive messages and to empower some people.

  Chaka Khan

  People, Giving, Empowering

  Source: www.today.com

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• Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.

  Chaka Khan

  Real, Accomplishment, Degrees

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• I would have been an archaeologist or something, maybe a historian. There are a lot of things I would have liked to have done differently, but everything that happened to me made me the person I am today. No matter how negative it seemed at the time or whatever hardship it seemed to have been at that time, Im just the sum of all those amazing experiences.

  Chaka Khan

  Today, Negative, Done

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I've always struggled so much just to appreciate myself.

  Chaka Khan

  Appreciate

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• When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.

  Chaka Khan

  Horse, Twenties, Riding

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• I have some scars... lots of internal ones. But they're all scabbed over.

  Chaka Khan

  Scar, Internals

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Every personal experience of my life impacts my music.

  Chaka Khan

  Impact, Personal Experiences

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin.

  Chaka Khan

  Art, Media, Expression

  Song: Hollywood

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• I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do.

  Chaka Khan

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• I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.

  Chaka Khan

  Years, Circles, People

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• A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy. It's a false thing. It's like a lullaby as opposed to a gun. People need to be slapped into reality and music just doesn't do that.

  Chaka Khan

  Song, Gun, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.

  Chaka Khan

  Prison, Pops, Call Me

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• Every personal experience of my life impacts my music. I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back. I often fix it or color it differently or give it in my way, but thats what its about.

  Chaka Khan

  Impact, Color, Giving

  Source: www.today.com

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• If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.

  Chaka Khan

  Fighting, World, Fields

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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