I've always been a thin girl. I'm not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay?

[NEW YORK (CNN) -- Whitney Houston is trying to put an end to rumors that she and husband Bobby Brown are abusing drugs.] No, I'm not a drug addict, and neither is my husband, ... If that were so, you'd get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.