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I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
Erykah Badu
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Erykah Badu
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 26
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Jazz Musician
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Dallas
Texas
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My paternal grandmother gave me the courage to investigate things and not take things at face value or judge people by what I first imagine them to be.
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I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not share it, I'm always writing songs or coming up with melodic lines on piano or guitar. It's therapy. It's always happening.
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I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.
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The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.
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I'm only in competition with my last level.
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Different periods, different cultures - it's just the way my mind works. My music is that way as well. There's a foundation but the inspiration comes from everywhere. I've been influenced by so many things.
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I'm pretty mutable as a human being.
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I love putting the music together. It's like art
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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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Through [my children] patience, they're showing me how much they support what's going on, because I'm having to do a lot of work right now.
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I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.
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I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.
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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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I relate to that - he inspires me across the board. His music inspires me and reminds me to maintain honesty in the things that I do, to have an absence of fear. Listening to Earl Sweatshirt's music is like therapy to 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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He definitely does what a partner is supposed to do, that is, evolve you.
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Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.
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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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You don't have to believe everything you think.
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My fifth mother is Mother Nature - the things I had to learn on my own, the understanding I had to come to and still have to come to as a young woman, as a responsible mother, a responsible granddaughter and child. She teaches me willpower, honesty, and the things we need to heal ourselves from moment to moment.
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