Erykah Badu Quotes
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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 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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I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.
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Different periods, different cultures - it's just the way my mind works. My music is that way as well. There's a foundation but the inspiration comes from everywhere. I've been influenced by so many things.
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I'm only in competition with my last level.
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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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When I get ready to do an album, that means I have something to say for the sake of words, and I listen back to all of the things I've been creating and pull things from out of the air to go with them. It's almost like I start creating the album before I even think about creating it.
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You don't have to believe everything you think.
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I'm just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.
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I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.
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I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.
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I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.
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Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.
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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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I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.
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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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I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.
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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 planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
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Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.
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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 don't know if I'll ever accomplish most of my dreams - I have so many.
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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 live in a queendom, ruled by a womb-iverse.