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

- 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 are receptive to any kind of germ.

- 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

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

- Anita Baker

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

- 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 looked upon as being difficult. Wher…

- 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

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 …

- 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 dumb on TV.

- Anita Baker