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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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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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 feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.
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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 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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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 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 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 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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The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
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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 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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When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.
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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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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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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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There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.
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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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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.