Erykah Badu Quotes
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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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Things are useless without practice.
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Don't let anybody infiltrate your dream
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What opens my heart is when my son wakes me up in the morning, nudging me and saying, 'Mommy, mommy!'
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I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is
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I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.
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I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.
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I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art, and computer science; things that I would have never had the opportunity to even meet had it not been for those people taking time out of their schedules, helping us as children to travel all over the world while sitting in a gymnasium. That's what I did before I was a musician, before I was a recording artist, I was a teacher and a community leader.
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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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I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.
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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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We literally just finished making this gown 20 minutes ago. I love it. It's my favorite color.
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I have a pair of blue pants that were my favorite for a while and were a part of my show uniform - every night, you know.
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I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen
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Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.
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I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.
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I'm inspired by Earl Sweatshirt. He's a really honest writer, and he's unusually intelligent.
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From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.
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I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.
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Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.
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Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness.
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I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.
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I have a daughter who's four, who's dainty and princess-esque. I still get to dress her like my little accessory. I think I have one more year to do that, then she's going to get her own ideas - so I better move quickly!
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The metal or the stone that's helping me .I'll incorporate them into anything I wear - but I think it's about accessories more than anything, because it's how you accessorize yourself that gives you your own unique style.