Erykah Badu Quotes
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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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I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.
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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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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 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 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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The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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When people are going on to the next plateau of whatever this thing is called life, I also want them to breathe easily, even if it's the last one they take here with us. I guess I'm the welcoming committee and ushering committee.
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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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I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.
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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.