Quotes By Patti LaBelle

You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.

I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.

I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada.

So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

I'm very shy in a crowd.

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.

Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.

I think the race situation is getting better as far as people respecting each other goes. I think the race situation with entertainment is not that much better.

I'm so grounded, it's sad.

I'm no different than you.

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.

I'm very spontaneous.

I was very shy. I'm still shy.

I'll perform all the way to the grave.

People with no humor, they're outta my life.

Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.