#my

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

— Patti LaBelle

#get #get married #i #love #loving

Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#eminem #get #having #i #lose

I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky! ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#even #good #gothic #i #like

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'. ↗

— Carla Bley

#art #band #better #blues #could

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#breakthrough #came #city #else #every

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#art of war #enemy #fight #him #must

I'm a child of God. God is my mommy, my daddy. That's the only thing that'll keep my head up. If I don't remember who I am in him, I'm done. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#child #daddy #done #god #head

I do consider myself part of black history. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#black history #consider #history #i #i do

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#barely #children #i #more #my own

I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#bad #care #does #else #even