Erykah Badu Quotes
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Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.
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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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I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.
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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.
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I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy.
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I'm just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.
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I have a Pinterest, and if you look there you'll see the things I really like and adore, have crushes on, and there's a lot of stuff from Riccardo's [Tisci] line on there.
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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 don't know if I'll ever accomplish most of my dreams - I have so many.
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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 have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.
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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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Now my record deal helps me to do things for free or give more time to my community than I could otherwise.
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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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We lock ourselves into our own philosophies, our own religions, our own walks of life, and if we fail, we condemn ourselves and then we get sick.
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[Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.
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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 performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
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I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time
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You don't have to believe everything you think.
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Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.
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People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.
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Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not . . . ”—Badu pauses to get her words together; she wants this point to be very clear—“. . . when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing.
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I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.