Anita Baker Quotes

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

  Anita Baker

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Home, Leave

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Applause, Temporarily, Approval

• 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

  Tags in Instill, Raising, Profanity

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

  Anita Baker

  Tags in Self-Knowledge, Floor, Tresses

• 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

  Tags in Choosing, Picking, Factor

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

  Anita Baker

  Tags in Ripe, Peak

• 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

  Tags in Complex, Minimum

• 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

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Mom

Anita Baker (8)

Birth:	26th January, 1958
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Singer, Songwriter

About

Anita Denise Baker was born in Toledo, Ohio. She is an American singer-songwriter. Starting her career in the late-1970s with the funk band Chapter 8, Baker eventually released her first solo album, The Songstress, in 1983. In 1986, she rose to stardom following the release of her platinum-selling second album, Rapture, which included the Grammy-winning single "Sweet Love". To date, Baker has won eight Grammy Awards and has five platinum albums and one gold album to her credit. Baker's vocal range is contralto.  Baker currently lives in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

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