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Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer and songwriter. Franklin began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, where her father, C. L. Franklin, was minister. In 1960, at the age of 18, she embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records but only achieving modest success.

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I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.

Advertise, Business, Condition, Discussion, Feels, Medical

I sing to the realists, people who accept it like it is. I express problems. There are tears when it's sad and smiles when it's happy. It seems simple to me, but for some people, I guess feelin' takes courage.

Happy, Inspirational, People, Realists, Simple, Smiles

I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me. '

Dad, Fence, Jesus, Performed, Song, Think

The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.

Gets, He Man, Hell, Man, Men, Woman

Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.

Children, Home, Parent, Parents, Talk

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

Aretha, Away, Comeback, Making, Say

As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war. . . You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.

Amount, Let, Letting Go, Maintain, Parent, War

I love to sing. It's just a natural thing for me.

Love, Natural, Natural Things, Sing, Thing

If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?

Philosophy, Respect, Run, Running, Thinking, World

Yes, I've always been fashion conscious.

Conscious, Fashion, Yes

On the sly, scoping for love.

Expression, Love, Scoping, Sly

My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left. . . I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.

Burdens, Gonna, Heart, Jesus, Records

Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.

Broken, Ceiling, Ceilings, Glasses, Seats, Women

I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.

Hardest, Losing, Think, Thinking, Weight

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

Aliens, Experienced, Good, Song, Soul

I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey - like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.

Love, Producing, Real, Wonder, Writers, Writing

Politics are not my arena. Music is.

Arena, Music, Music Is, Politics

You're a no good heartbreaker, you're a liar, and you're a cheat. I don't know why I let you do these things to me.

Cheat, Good, Heartbreaker, Liar, Liars, Low Self Esteem

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

Encouraging, People, Strengthening, Things, Uplifting, Years

Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

Growing Up, Hurt, Hurting, Leadership, Make, Mistakes

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