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 BADUMy eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don’t have nothing to do with your new friend
More Erykah Badu Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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Music and the music business are two different things.
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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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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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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’ve been a vegetarian since I was 19.
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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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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 think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.
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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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