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• You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director.

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• When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.

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• Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I’ve been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.

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• My mother wasn’t rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I’ve been shot. And now I’m known around the world, and I’ve touched a lot of people with my music. That’s one of the great testimonies that’s gonna go down in history.

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• If you’re gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don’t do it.

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• If there’s no fire, there’s no scream. If there’s no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

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• If I’m going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That’s what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.

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• I wouldn’t be able to do the songs as long as I’ve been doing if I didn’t feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.

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• I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

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• In life, you have people that love to party. That’s me. People that love God. That’s me. People that love sex. That’s me. People that love people. That’s me. And people that make mistakes.That’s me also.

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• You’re younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.

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• You know, I’m no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.

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• When you’re me, when you’re R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don’t give ’em a piece they’ll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.

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• They say marriage will change you but it didn’t change me. Being in love changed me.

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• People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don’t even know you. All of a sudden, you’re, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I’m going through.

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• Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.

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• My greatest competition is, well, me.

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• Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I’m also a very loving person.

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• Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I’m working the music.

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• I’ve programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, s*xy, but classy, all in one. And that’s the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come – you know, the stories and things like that.

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Robert Sylvester Kelly (26)

Birth:	8th January, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Record Producer, Lyricist, Singer

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Robert Sylvester Kelly known by his stage name R. Kelly, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Often referred to as the King of R&B, Kelly is recognized as one of the most successful R&B artists of all-time.

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