Chaka Khan Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Walking through this life really is walking through fire.

I won't become a household word, or achieve the fame I deserve in my lifetime because of the way I look.

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

There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

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

My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.

But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.

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

Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.

In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.

I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

There is no perfect love - that's something I'm very realistic about.

One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out

I like to work spontaneously.

I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.

Spirituality has played an amazing part. Its been paramount in my life.

Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

I have a lot of charity work I'm into right now, and selling my Chakalates - supporting that whole effort.

My mom took me to see Goldfinger. My mom took me to see To Sir, With Love.

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

It sacrifices people's lives and their essences at the drop of a dimeI had a manager once say to me, You know you're worth more money dead than alive.

I loved him [Prince], the world loved him.Now he's at peace with his Father.Rest in power, Prince , my brother.

I'm an extremely determined person. I'm very serious about what I do.

Every personal experience of my life impacts my music.

If I love a song, I make it mine.

I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back.

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

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

You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody.