Anita Baker

I need my career. That's what validates me.

— Anita Baker

I dont think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

— Anita Baker

My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed…

— Anita Baker

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood…

— Anita Baker

I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be…

— Anita Baker

It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it…

— Anita Baker

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

— Anita Baker

Oh my goodness, they are rocking so many variations of my high-top fade. I mean, Rihanna has taken it to a very…

— Anita Baker

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

— Anita Baker

I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not…

— Anita Baker

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

— Anita Baker

I don't even have voice mail, and people get all out of shape about that. But, you know what, I don't want…

— Anita Baker

I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the…

— Anita Baker

We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a…

— Anita Baker

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in…

— Anita Baker

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have.

— Anita Baker

Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.

— Anita Baker

Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do.

— Anita Baker

As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords…

— Anita Baker

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're…

— Anita Baker

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

— Anita Baker

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something…

— Anita Baker

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, but learn to love what you have.

— Anita Baker

Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love…

— Anita Baker

I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift.

— Anita Baker