Erykah Badu Quotes
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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 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.
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I view my hair and clothes as functional art.
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My nine-year-old daughter is very creative and colorful and trendy.
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I love putting the music together. It's like art
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...When it come to da: " What it do?! I don't fall for da: "Woop- TeE- WoOoo!
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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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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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That's the moment I learned that the more you believe in yourself, the stronger the vibration touches someone else, and things begin to happen the way you dreamed that they would.
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Poor is the new black.
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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.
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The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.
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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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Art is the absence of fear.
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If we were made in his image then call us by our names. Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same
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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.
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It's weird, but if I decide to do an album, then the ideas start fitting themselves together. I consider myself a nice, slow burn. Plus, it's not a race. And I have a lot to share.
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I create my own calm and I keep my balance, because I know that it's not really me, by myself... The Creator always gives me the energy.
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All the women in my family were very creative.
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I know that I want to concentrate more on my inside-pretty than my outside-pretty, because thats gonna go away. But if your inside is beautiful, it never wears away. The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good inside.
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I really enjoy being the child's 'welcoming committee' and to help someone usher his or her spirit into the world in a very peaceful way is very effortless to me.
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But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.