Anita Baker Quotes


"Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have."
- Anita Baker
(Related: Love)

"You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family."
- Anita Baker
(Related: Family, Home, Fortune)

"I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album."
- Anita Baker
(Related: Age, First)

"I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum."
- Anita Baker
(Related: Life, People)

"Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history."
- Anita Baker
(Related: History, Medical, Happiness, Emotions, Motherhood, Nothing, Words)

"Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily."
- Anita Baker
(Related: Applause, Approval, Pain)

"We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance."
- Anita Baker
(Related: Love, God, People, Values, Boys, Chance, Drugs, Morals, Profanity, Respect, Will)