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Erykah Badu

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.
ERYKAH BADU

Kitchen Leave Most People Tea Two
There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.
ERYKAH BADU

Atom Memories Musical
Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.
ERYKAH BADU

Eliminate Evolve Longer
I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 19.
ERYKAH BADU

Love Ninteen Ten Vegetarian
If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, ‘I’m gonna do this,’ and you should stick to it.
ERYKAH BADU

Decision Should Stick
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.
ERYKAH BADU

Blue Night Uniform
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.
ERYKAH BADU

Moving Song Writing
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.
ERYKAH BADU

Parent Requirement Taught
I knew it would happen. I knew I’d be No. 1. I’m a new artist; I don’t know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn’t happen
ERYKAH BADU

Artist Happen Told
I’m pretty mutable as a human being.
ERYKAH BADU

Human Mutable Pretty
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.
ERYKAH BADU

Consider Mean Music People Sing
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.
ERYKAH BADU

Beautiful Body Home
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

Choice Government Way
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.
ERYKAH BADU

Art Fashion Moving
My style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season.
ERYKAH BADU

Blazer Color Moss Style
My mom was the Diana Ross of our clan. She was always up-to-date, and always knew what to do and what not to do in a fashion sense.
ERYKAH BADU

Clans Fashion Mom

I’m just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.

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