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I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.

Erykah Badu

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.
ERYKAH BADU

Country Heart Running
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
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
[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
I view my hair and clothes as functional art.
ERYKAH BADU

Art Functional Hair View
I’m pretty mutable as a human being, period – if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.
ERYKAH BADU

Figure Period Pluto
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
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
Music and the music business are two different things.
ERYKAH BADU

Business Different Music Two
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
I’m just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.
ERYKAH BADU

Emotion Everyone Everything Express People
The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.
ERYKAH BADU

Humble Knowledge Life
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
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 planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
ERYKAH BADU

Congratulations Happen Success
I strongly believe that the more positive my vibration is, the clearer my message will be. I keep my negative thoughts from infiltrating my pathway and my dreams. Other people’s thoughts are none of my business.
ERYKAH BADU

Believe Dream People
Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.
ERYKAH BADU

Eliminate Evolve Longer
Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.
ERYKAH BADU

Bless Blessing Learn Lesson Wealth
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 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
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 was born to make mistakes, I ain’t scared to take the weight.
ERYKAH BADU

Mistakes Scared Weight
I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.
ERYKAH BADU

Artist Job Thinking
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’ve been a vegetarian since I was 19.
ERYKAH BADU

Love Ninteen Ten Vegetarian
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 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

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