Erykah Badu Quotes
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My favorite jewelry, it's just what I'm feeling at the time.
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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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I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
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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 was sitting at home one day and I got a call that Riccardo Tisci was considering me for the face of the Givenchy Spring/Summer 2014 campaign, and I said, "Are you kidding?" and that was the end of the conversation. I'm a really big fan.
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I try to be honest and I keep moving.
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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 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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All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.
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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 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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I grew up listening to old soul
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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 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 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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Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.
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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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A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.
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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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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 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.