Erykah Badu Quotes
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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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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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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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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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All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.
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I don't know why, it's just what I feel inside, the thoughts that I sing about. It's just my truth. Sometimes my emotions can be mistaken for messages.
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The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.
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Discipline is important, we need to be more focused on what we put into our bodies.
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I try to be honest and I keep moving.
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A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.
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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'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
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I grew up listening to old soul
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I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.
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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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Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.
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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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Things are useless without practice.
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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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My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that I can communicate with the voice of this generation.
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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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I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.
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I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
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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.