Phrases

01. Loneliness comes with life.

02. I’m either my best friend or my worst enemy.

03. I wish to you joy and happiness. But above all this, I wish you love.

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

05. When the night falls, my lonely heart calls.

06. My mother taught me beauty really lives in places like a smile.

07. Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be.

08. Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all.

09. I’m proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend. We’re all God’s children.

10. No one makes me do anything I don’t want to do.

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

12. 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?

13. You get that love from the people. It lets me know that all the madness I go through, all the stuff that the business has to offer with all its madness; it makes it worthwhile.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. When you’re feeling full of doubt and fear has got you in a bind, love will save the day.

17. I finally faced the fact that it isn’t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

18. 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.

19. BSB are a great bunch of guys, I really like them.

20. I’m a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.

21. When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That’s what I wanted to do.

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

23. I have nothing! Nothing! If I don’t have you.

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

25. Sometimes you’ll laugh. Sometimes you’ll cry. Life never tells us, the when’s or why’s. When you’ve got friends, to wish you well. You’ll find your point when. You will exhale.

26. I’d rather be alone than unhappy.

27. My mother sang with me in her stomach; I sang with Bobbi Kris in my stomach. I believe the child starts to develop within, and whatever you read, whatever you think, whatever you do affects the child.

28. I’m good where I am at this moment.

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

30. You can achieve your goals and enjoy the spoils of success once you unlock your full potential.

31. Sometimes you do have a good time. But when it gets to the point where you’re sitting in your home and you’re just trying to cover what you don’t want people to know. It’s painful. And then you want more just so that you don’t let anybody see you cry. Or anybody to see we’re not happy.

32. You don’t have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don’t live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals and standards and integrity.

33. 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.

34. Nobody makes me do anything I don’t want to do. It’s my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I’m either my best friend or my worst enemy.

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

36. My name is not Susan, so watch what you say. If you still need her, then be on your way.

37. I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I’m not a person who wants to die. I’m a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn’t mistake it for anything else other than that.

38. 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.

39. I have a mother that’s very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.

40. What’s in your soul is in your soul.

41. I’ve got some good saints out there – that’s right – that pray for me constantly. You’ve gotta have that! You do.

42. Bobby wants to have a lot of kids. Five would be a definite mistake. I’m only kidding. I love kids.

43. If you say my eyes are beautiful, it’s because they are looking at you.

44. Each day I live I want to be, a day to give the best of me. I’m only one, but not alone. My finest day is yet unknown.

45. I broke my heart for every gain, to taste the sweet I faced the pain.

46. 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.

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

48. I’m an old-fashioned girl. And I love gospel. I like things that lift me up, inspire me.

49. 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.

50. Never let your heart take precedence over reason, otherwise you will have problems.

51. Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.

52. I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in trance. I just stared at the clock in the center of the church. When I finished, everyone clapped and started crying.

53. I love to sing, but it’s just not fun anymore.

54. I’m older, I’m matured … I’m looking forward to the years to come. Good years.

55. 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.

56. No, I’m not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you’d get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work.

57. Growing around great musicians, you just can’t help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that when I started singing, it was almost like speaking.

58. I’m tired of people taking off their clothes.

59. I’ve never felt like this in any other country. I feel at home, I feel wonderful.

60. I feel so blessed to just have done what I had done. To be able to just use what God has given me is a blessing. You know, never mind the Grammys, never mind the records, never mind all of that. Just to be able to sing.

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

62. I know that I could really kill for my daughter. I know because I’m living for her, so I’m fierce when it comes down to it. And I feel the same about my husband and my family. I’m just fiercely protective. It’s like, that’s my lair and nobody messes with my lair.

63. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I live as I believe.

64. Crack is wack!