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It just works better for me to discriminate between which thoughts are mine and which come from elsewhere, before I even talk about them or express them - it helps to keep me focused on my path.
Erykah Badu -
I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.
Erykah Badu
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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.
Erykah Badu -
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.
Erykah Badu -
I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.
Erykah Badu -
I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it - in science - sympathetic vibrations.
Erykah Badu -
I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.
Erykah Badu -
The girls just like to be in the shoes. They like to scuff up the floors and walk around in high-heeled shoes that are too big for them, all over the house.
Erykah Badu
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I'm only in competition with my last level.
Erykah Badu -
I don't plan how many people I work with. I don't charge anything. It's for my own learning, and I just enjoy being the welcoming committee. I became a doula by default.
Erykah Badu -
I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me.
Erykah Badu -
I think giving is a blind act that should come from a part of me that sees no discrimination (that's why I called it "blind").
Erykah Badu -
I love watching Rihanna in fashion. I like to see her take chances and risks. I like seeing Naomi Campbell in the forefront. They're both women who stand out and use their bodies as canvases to introduce this functional art to the world. They carry it in a way that is very inspiring.
Erykah Badu -
All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.
Erykah Badu
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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.
Erykah Badu -
Im a hip-hopper, and its something you live and do. It makes me angry that were misrepresented, that were being killed every day by one another, by the government, by the food we eat, the choices we make. It makes me angry because it doesnt have to be that way and it is.
Erykah Badu -
Art is the absence of fear.
Erykah Badu -
I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.
Erykah Badu -
...When it come to da: " What it do?! I don't fall for da: "Woop- TeE- WoOoo!
Erykah Badu -
I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.
Erykah Badu
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I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.
Erykah Badu -
I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not share it, I'm always writing songs or coming up with melodic lines on piano or guitar. It's therapy. It's always happening.
Erykah Badu -
I think [ fashion philosophy] it's about your smile and your smell.
Erykah Badu -
I was the bohemian in my family, the "this is my favorite shoe and I don't care if it has tape around it" kind of person. The tape could become a fashion statement. Or a political statement.
Erykah Badu