Erykah Badu Quotes
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All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.
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No one chooses to raise children alone.
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I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.
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Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
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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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Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.
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I try to be honest and I keep moving.
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The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.
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I mean thats a big part of our existence here on earth, the personal relationship we have with the person that we love, with the person that we make love to, with the person that we share our lives with. We expect a lot of things back from our loved one, and the lesson is to accept and not expect.
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I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.
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Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.
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I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
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A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.
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Things are useless without practice.
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Discipline is important, we need to be more focused on what we put into our bodies.
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We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.
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What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.
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I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.
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Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.
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I remember when I signed with Kedar Entertainment through Universal Records. It was my first record deal and it's the one I still have now. At that time, there had been a couple of opportunities I was almost given, but at the last minute the giver came back and told me it couldn't happen.
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I grew up listening to old soul
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I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.
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I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
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And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.