Chaka Quotes & Sayings

I want to give some positive messages and to empower some people. — Chaka Khan

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt. — Chaka Khan

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

Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs. — Chaka Khan

A couple of months ago I hauled my white ass on stage alongside Chaka Khan and Stevie Wonder for Divas Las Vegas, singing in front of a celebrity audience. If I can hold my own there, I can hold my own at Top of the Pops, trust me. — Lisa Marie Presley

Your moment of clarity comes when you face your fears. Sobriety gave me back me - my life. Self-medication kills you slowly. You can never get a handle on that. It's a highly destructive force that has to be dealt with on a spiritual level as much as a physical one. — Chaka Khan

I will not be defeated by a bad man and an American stick insect ... instead I choose Chaka Khan ... and vodka ... Bridget Jones — Helen Fielding

Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority. — Chaka Fattah

While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis. — Chaka Fattah

Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies. — Chaka Fattah

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college. — Chaka Fattah

The Republican Party is in charge. They've been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years. — Chaka Fattah

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

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

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

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life. — Mary J. Blige

America breeds ambition and while that can be a good thing, sometimes it's not. Ambition also breeds competition and that can be a very bad thing. People become chronically preoccupied with competing and don't know when to stop. It can become unhealthy. — Chaka Khan

Bush has never sent over a balanced budget. — Chaka Fattah

Chaka Fattah already lost the seat in a Democratic primary. So, he's on his way out. And he formally resigned this week. — Christopher Michael Cillizza

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

You know later in life I was inspired to sing and that would've been Aretha, Chaka Khan, Mariah - the typical divas were the inspiration. I've always enjoyed all those singers. — Anastacia

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

Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns. — Fergie

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff. — Chaka Khan

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double. — Chaka Fattah

Then what in your opinion is a good story?'
'What it's always been, monkey,' Ganesha said. 'One dhansu conflict. Some chaka-chak song and dance. Grief. Love. Love for the lover, love for the mother. Love for the land. Comedy. Terror. One tremendous villain whom we must love also. All the elements properly balanced and mixed together, item after item, like a perfect meal with a dance of tastes. There you have it. — Vikram Chandra

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

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

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

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. — Chaka Khan

I have mad love for the way we were taught and trained back in the day. I mean, those of us - like Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight - we didn't give into this new wave of celebrity. — Stephanie Mills

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

These forays into the real world sharpened his view that scientists needed the widest possible education. He used to say, "How can you design for people if you don't know history and psychology? You can't. Because your mathematical formulas may be perfect, but the people will screw it up. And if that happens, it means you screwed it up." He peppered his lectures with quotations from Plato, Chaka Zulu, Emerson, and Chang-tzu.

But as a professor who was popular with his students - and who advocated general education - Thorne found himself swimming against the tide. The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon. In this climate, being liked by your students was a sign of shallowness; and interest in real-world problems was proof of intellectual poverty and a distressing indifference to theory. — Michael Crichton

I like to work spontaneously. — Chaka Khan

There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places. — Chaka Fattah

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

The President's proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent. — Chaka Fattah

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

I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion. — Chaka Khan

We have major fiscal problems on our hand. — Chaka Fattah

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

But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits. — Chaka Fattah

Chaka, I know that pussy hairy. Sade, ooooh, I know that pussy tight. — The Notorious B.I.G.

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

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

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

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. — Chaka Khan

I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - I'm my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don't feel successful. I'm nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals. — Chaka Khan

You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings ... You can't argue with the universe. It's not about that. It's more about relaxing and knowing that you can handle it and feeling empowered. Knowing you have the power to do whatever the hell you want to do. That's what it's about. It really is. — Chaka Khan

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. — Chaka Khan

I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some. — Chaka Fattah

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

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

Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance. — Chaka Fattah

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

When Bill Clinton was in town, he sent over a balanced budget. — Chaka Fattah

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. — Chaka Khan

I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere. — Chaka Khan

But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did. — Chaka Fattah

The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful. — Chaka Fattah

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

Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures. — Chaka Fattah

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

I remember seeing the movie 'To Sir With Love' when I was a little girl. — Chaka Khan

A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy. It's a false thing. It's like a lullaby as opposed to a gun. People need to be slapped into reality and music just doesn't do that. — Chaka Khan

This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy. — Chaka Fattah

We need to have Bill Cosby month in Philadelphia. — Chaka Fattah

The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people. — Chaka Fattah

I would have been an archaeologist or something, maybe a historian. There are a lot of things I would have liked to have done differently, but everything that happened to me made me the person I am today. No matter how negative it seemed at the time or whatever hardship it seemed to have been at that time, Im just the sum of all those amazing experiences. — Chaka Khan

The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran the show. Chiefs like Chaka and Mzilikazi committed terrible atrocities. That is the tradition from which modern African rulers spring. It won't change easily overnight. — Wilbur Smith

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

There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade. — Chaka Fattah

To me, this degree was an acknowledgment of my work in music. — Chaka Khan

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. — Chaka Khan

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

I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises. — Chaka Fattah

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

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

Walking through this life really is walking through fire. — Chaka Khan

Every personal experience of my life impacts my music. I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back. I often fix it or color it differently or give it in my way, but thats what its about. — Chaka Khan

The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable. — Chaka Fattah

Democracy derailed is democracy denied. — Chaka Fattah

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

I'm a woman and I'm a backbone ... everybody needs one. — Chaka Khan

If I love a song, I make it mine. — Chaka Khan