Erykah Badu Quotes
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Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.
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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 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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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.
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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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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 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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It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.
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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'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally.
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As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.
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I imagine that when I am creating a song or a project or an album or putting some clothing together or cooking a meal, whatever it is, I don't really have a recipe. The fun part is to throw that big piece of clay in the middle of the table as hard as I can, and whatever shape it takes, that's what shape it takes, and then I start to carve away.
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My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child. She told me that, "I was the best," and it helped me so much.
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What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.
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Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.
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I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.
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He definitely does what a partner is supposed to do, that is, evolve you.
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The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
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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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In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’
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What I like about houses like Givenchy. It's easy to pull from. With Givenchy you can accessorize to build anything, any look.
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Things are useless without practice.
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I thought it was cool how [ Riccardo Tisci] wanted to blend Africa and Asia because they relate to each other in so many different ways.
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[The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.