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Music and the music business are two different things.

Erykah Badu

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Erykah Badu
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 26
Actor
Composer
Jazz Musician
Poet
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Erica Abi Wright
Erica Wright
Things
Business
Two
Music
Different

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Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.
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My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.
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I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.
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What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.
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My favorite jewelry, it's just what I'm feeling at the time.
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You don't have to believe everything you think.
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I'm more like an oven than a microwave.
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I have an organization called BLIND [Beautiful Love Incorporated Nonprofit Development], so named because even though my interest is in the black community, because that's where I grew up and that's where I'm most skilled in fixing things, it doesn't end there.
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