Dionne Warwick: Britain has always been very good to me. I feel its wonderful embrace'
Briefly

I simply couldn't understand why anyone would be so against someone just because of a different skin pigmentation... Nobody realised what was happening until Rock Hudson put a face on it. He became the poster boy for Aids.
I helped spearhead the opposition to the often violent, undeniably misogynistic lyrics in gangster rap... Then I pointed out to Snoop Dogg that he might have a daughter one day... who'd hear young women referred to as bitches.
Britain has always been very good to me. I feel its wonderful embrace. I haven't always been comfortable with some of the cover versions of my biggest hits... My complaint was that the treatment of the song wasn't just similar to mine, it was identical. If I'd sneezed, she would have done, too.
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