So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva. – Patti LaBelle
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 dont let anybody crush your dream. – Patti LaBelle
Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didnt know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me. – Patti LaBelle
I truly respect the people who are working. If they want an autograph from Patti LaBelle, they are going to get it. I have never separated myself from them. I never think you are better than the next one. – Patti LaBelle
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. – Shirley Chisholm