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 BADUI 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.
More Erykah Badu Quotes
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I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
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I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 19.
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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 just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.
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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 trust the political system to be what it is. It’s a structure to keep the country running, a boat to get us [citizens] from one side to the other, and it has the country’s best interests at heart. Not the people’s.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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 think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.
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I’m pretty mutable as a human being.
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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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The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.
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