Erykah Badu Quotes
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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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In music, it makes for a good platform to take time and really mold a piece the way I need to mold it. When it comes to fashion, I create a functional art that moves.
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He definitely does what a partner is supposed to do, that is, evolve you.
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People are uncomfortable with sexuality that’s not for male consumption.
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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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We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.
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I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.
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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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What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.
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My second mother is my maternal grandmother. Her name is Thelma. She also gave me a very powerful medicine; she made sure that I knew my role as a young lady and as someone with moral structures and principles. She taught me that if I was going to be involved with anything, whether it be spirituality, music, or some skill, that I have to practice.
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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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All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.
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I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.
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I was born to make mistakes, I ain't scared to take the weight.
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My mom was the Diana Ross of our clan. She was always up-to-date, and always knew what to do and what not to do in a fashion sense.
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Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.
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Don't let anybody infiltrate your dream
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I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.
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I trust the political system to be what it is. It's a structure to keep the country running, a boat to get us [citizens] from one side to the other, and it has the country's best interests at heart. Not the people's.
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I know the community mostly for its art and culture... and of course its food, I eat at their restaurants." "They make you feel like taking off your shoes... it feels like home.
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My fifth mother is Mother Nature - the things I had to learn on my own, the understanding I had to come to and still have to come to as a young woman, as a responsible mother, a responsible granddaughter and child. She teaches me willpower, honesty, and the things we need to heal ourselves from moment to moment.
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I'm a recovering undercover over-lover.
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We literally just finished making this gown 20 minutes ago. I love it. It's my favorite color.
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Things are useless without practice.