My Mother Always Wanted Me To Be

I Am So Happy That I Am Alive And Can Walk.

I’ve Learned To Live With Rage. In Some Ways, It’s My Rage That Keeps Me Going. Without It, I Would Have Been Whipped Long Ago. With It, I Got A Lot More Songs To Sing.

People Always Say 'etta, You Know What Your Problem Is? You're Neither Fish Nor Fowl. There Is No Place To Rack You.' When I Would Go In A Record Shop, You Might Find One Or Two Records By Me In Different Stacks.

I'm Not A Braggart, But When I Was A Little Girl People Used To Come From All Over Hollywood To Hear Me Sing.

My Mother Always Wanted Me To Be Glamorous. When I Thought About That, It Really Fired Me Up, And Once I Lost All Those Pounds, I Started To Feel Really Good About Myself.