I was born to make mistakes, I ain’t scared to take the weight.
ERYKAH BADUIn 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.
More Erykah Badu Quotes
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I’m pretty mutable as a human being.
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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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I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.
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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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Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.
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I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 19.
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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.
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I’m learning from them! Everyone says that, but it’s true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.
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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’d rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
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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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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 planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
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