Erykah Badu Quotes
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The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good on the inside.
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My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don't have nothing to do with your new friend
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They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs, ingesting more and more fear with every act of hate on one another.
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So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.
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Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.
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Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.
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I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.
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I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.
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I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.
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I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.
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I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to be. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, the places that your heart takes you. But continue to follow it. Where the train leads you - you'll get there.
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I have an organization called BLIND [Beautiful Love Incorporated Nonprofit Development], so named because even though my interest is in the black community, because that's where I grew up and that's where I'm most skilled in fixing things, it doesn't end there.
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When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.
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I solidify his [ Riccardo Tisci] vision and what he is trying to manifest, make it a crystal or solid thing because of the relationship I have with my culture and what my music means to him.
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Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.
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I just love expressing my joy and my mind through what I wear, or how I cook, or how I dance, or how I write or perform a song - how I move.
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Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.
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I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.
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The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
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When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.
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What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.
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This pain to remain the same outweigh the pain to change... When you get tired enough is when you begin to want to sacrifice everything inside of you—the fear just leaves
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If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.
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Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.