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 BADUI don’t have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.
More Erykah Badu Quotes
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I just love expressing my joy and my mind through what I wear, or how I cook, or how I dance, or how I write or perform a song – how I move.
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A home birth is about being able to create exactly what you want, because it’s such a violent moment inside of the body that you want everything else to be as beautiful as it can be.
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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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In music, it makes for a good platform to take time and really mold a piece the way I need to mold it. When it comes to fashion, I create a functional art that moves.
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Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.
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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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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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I don’t have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.
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I’m pretty mutable as a human being.
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When you’re in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.
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I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.
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What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I’ve worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.
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I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
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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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My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don’t have nothing to do with your new friend
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