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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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Erykah Badu
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 26
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Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.
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I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.
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Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.
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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 try to be honest and I keep moving.
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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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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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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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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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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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My girls are very fashionable. They have a very good eye for marrying style and fashion.
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I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.
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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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I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.
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I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.
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I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.
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All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.
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All the women in my family were very creative.
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