Erykah Badu Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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My style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season.
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My favorite jewelry, it's just what I'm feeling at the time.
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I relate to that - he inspires me across the board. His music inspires me and reminds me to maintain honesty in the things that I do, to have an absence of fear. Listening to Earl Sweatshirt's music is like therapy to me.
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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 don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.
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Following your heart also means eliminating the things that no longer evolve you.
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They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don't have a lot of things that give them joy from day to day.
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My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.
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I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
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I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.
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What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.
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My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.
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I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.
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I don't require sex for happiness - I need companionship. I need a partner I can depend on, that I can love and grow with.
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The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.
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Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
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I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.
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No one chooses to raise children alone.