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I try to be honest and I keep moving.

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
Honest
Moving
Keep
Trying

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I was sitting at home one day and I got a call that Riccardo Tisci was considering me for the face of the Givenchy Spring/Summer 2014 campaign, and I said, Are you kidding? and that was the end of the conversation. I'm a really big fan.
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Better think while it's still legal.
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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.
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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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A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.
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I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.
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When people are going on to the next plateau of whatever this thing is called life, I also want them to breathe easily, even if it's the last one they take here with us. I guess I'm the welcoming committee and ushering committee.
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That's the moment I learned that the more you believe in yourself, the stronger the vibration touches someone else, and things begin to happen the way you dreamed that they would.
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My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don't have nothing to do with your new friend
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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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I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.
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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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I bring the staple of my culture.
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I grew up listening to old soul
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Honey isn't really that good for you.
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I view my hair and clothes as functional art.
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My favorite jewelry, it's just what I'm feeling at the time.
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It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.
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I was the bohemian in my family, the this is my favorite shoe and I don't care if it has tape around it kind of person. The tape could become a fashion statement. Or a political statement.
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[The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.
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