I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

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• Mariah Carey:

  Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.

• Mariah Carey:

  My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

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  I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.

• Mariah Carey:

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• Mariah Carey:

  One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got thre

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• Mariah Carey:

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• Mariah Carey:

  My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people alwa