Erykah Badu Quotes
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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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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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I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.
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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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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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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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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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I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.
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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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I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.
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The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
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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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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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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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When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.
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Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.
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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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There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.
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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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Some people come up and ask for an autograph and don't even look at me. They're like, 'Here, do it.' That don't bother me, but it doesn't open my heart.
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I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.
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I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.
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A home birth is about being able to create exactly what you want, because it's such a violent moment inside of the body that you want everything else to be as beautiful as it can be.
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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.