I’d rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
ERYKAH BADUI 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.
More Erykah Badu Quotes
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He definitely does what a partner is supposed to do, that is, evolve you.
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There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.
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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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Music and the music business are two different things.
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The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.
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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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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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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 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’m pretty mutable as a human being, period – if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.
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I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 19.
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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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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
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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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