Erykah Badu Quotes
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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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My fifth mother is Mother Nature - the things I had to learn on my own, the understanding I had to come to and still have to come to as a young woman, as a responsible mother, a responsible granddaughter and child. She teaches me willpower, honesty, and the things we need to heal ourselves from moment to moment.
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I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
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I think [ fashion philosophy] it's about your smile and your smell.
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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.
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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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My girls are very fashionable. They have a very good eye for marrying style and fashion.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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I'm only in competition with my last level.
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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'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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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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My nine-year-old daughter is very creative and colorful and trendy.
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Through [my children] patience, they're showing me how much they support what's going on, because I'm having to do a lot of work right now.
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During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.
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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 actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.
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We were all born, and we all came to the music business with everything we had. Some of us just don't get a chance. Now there's a lot of other people like myself, indeed, who are getting heard worldwide. That gives other artists a chance.
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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.