Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.
And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet.
My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.
I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record with him.
Name a sexual disease, she got it like Sam Goody.
I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.