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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

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
My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don’t have nothing to do with your new friend
ERYKAH BADU

Eye Green Vegetables
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
I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.
ERYKAH BADU

Artist Job Thinking
I’m learning from them! Everyone says that, but it’s true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.
ERYKAH BADU

Everyone Lesson True Yourself
[Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.
ERYKAH BADU

Interest Tribe Weave
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
I was born to make mistakes, I ain’t scared to take the weight.
ERYKAH BADU

Mistakes Scared Weight
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’d rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
ERYKAH BADU

Mind Natural Person
I view my hair and clothes as functional art.
ERYKAH BADU

Art Functional Hair View
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
Erykah Badu projects don’t even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don’t even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.
ERYKAH BADU

Album Project Sound
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
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
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

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