Some twenty-five or so years ago,
Gladys Knight gave an interview while promoting
her book of memoirs,
Between Each Line Of Pain and Glory,
and I always think of that interview when I see the word
decorum.

I can't find a suitable link to that old interview,
or else I would link to it in this post.

She was talking about the break-up of yet another marriage, to motivational speaker Les Brown.

"It's not so much that I had a problem with his ex-girlfriends, because I have a lot of men friends, too. My thing was decorum. Whatever you do, there's a way to do it. If you're telling the world that I'm your joy and I'm your Number One, well, there has to be a commitment behind it."


Told to journalist Annette John-Hall for the
Philadelphia Inquirer.