Erykah Badu Quotes
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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 think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.
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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.
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Better think while it's still legal.
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You don't have to believe everything you think.
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I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.
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Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.
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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").
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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.
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I strongly believe that the more positive my vibration is, the clearer my message will be. I keep my negative thoughts from infiltrating my pathway and my dreams. Other people's thoughts are none of my business.
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I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.
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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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My girls are very fashionable. They have a very good eye for marrying style and fashion.
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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.
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People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.
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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 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 think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it - in science - sympathetic vibrations.
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I view my hair and clothes as functional art.
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It's just that little box in the middle of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Most of the time I go I don't even leave that apartment. I have just enough: a little bed, a little kitchen with two pots. I make some tea and I look out the window or just lay down.
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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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I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.
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Honey isn't really that good for you.
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I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.