Erykah Badu Quotes
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I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.
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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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If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.
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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'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
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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 don't know... I've been doing it for 17 years now, so of course I've seen pictures and thought, "Oh my god, I wish I would've never worn that." Yeah, but I did! And it was probably because it was my favorite thing at the time - my clothes always have some kind of emotion attached to them.
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I try to be honest and I keep moving.
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Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one
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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 started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.
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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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The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.
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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 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 have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.
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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'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
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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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Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.
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I bring the staple of my culture.
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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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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.