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Patti LaBelle Biography

Patricia Louise Holt-Edwards (born May 24, 1944), known professionally as Patti LaBelle, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur. LaBelle began her career in the early 1960s as lead singer and front woman of the vocal group, Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles. Following the group's name change to Labelle in the early 1970s, they released the iconic disco song "Lady Marmalade" and the group later became the first African-American vocal group to land the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.

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So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs.

Diamonds, Party, Shoes, Year, Years

I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.

Night, Standing, Stills, Strong

People with no humor, they're outta my life.

Humor, Life, Outta, People

I always have to go that extra mile, and I do it and I don't mind doing it, but it isn't fair.

Extra, Extras, Fair, Mile, Miles, Mind

I was very shy. I'm still shy.

Shy, Stills

Always respect yourself and don't go out there disrespecting yourself.

Disrespecting, Respect, Respect Yourself

I truly respect the people who are working. If they want an autograph from Patti LaBelle, they are going to get it. I have never separated myself from them. I never think you are better than the next one.

Labelle, People, Think, Thinking, Want, Working

I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home - that's the only phone I have. If my phone rang every day like everyone else around me, I would lose my mind.

Book, Home, Kind, Land, Lose, Phones

Peace of mind just can't be bought. Trust me: Even if your conscience doesn't stop you from playing dirty to get what you want, once you get it, it will keep you from enjoying it. As my mother used to say, "A good conscience is God's eye. " Which is why I always prefer a loss to an underhanded gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Brings, Dirty, Keep, Mother, Pain, Peace

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

150, Entrepreneur, Giving, Nothing, Percent, Success

I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.

Feels, Prove, Though

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

Decade, Decades, Keep, Performer, Performers, Real

Here's the thing about faith: It gives us the strength to go on when we want to give in. It gives us the courage to get up when we want to lie down. It gives us the power to make a way out of no way when there ain't no way. Just as love can't make you strong until love has made you weak, well, faith can't lift you up until life has knocked you down. With faith or without it, we can't stop the waves. But with it, we don't need to. Because with it we can ride the surf.

Faith, Lying, Strong, Surf

I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada.

Canada, Canadians, Love, Racism, Racist

I'm very spontaneous.

Spontaneity, Spontaneous

You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.

Angel, Give, Giving

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

Although, Hop, Original, Queens, Song, Years

Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give freely, everything opened up for me. Everything began to flow into my life.

Dwelling, Giving, Life, Lose, Opened, Optimism

When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

Love, Loving, Loving Myself, Married

All these little heifers who can't sing are called ‘divas’.

Divas, Heifers, Littles, Sing

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