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Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.
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
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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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A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.
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People are uncomfortable with sexuality that’s not for male consumption.
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I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.
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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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I know the community mostly for its art and culture... and of course its food, I eat at their restaurants. They make you feel like taking off your shoes... it feels like home.
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I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.
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Things are useless without practice.
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My favorite jewelry, it's just what I'm feeling at the time.
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In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’
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I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.
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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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I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.
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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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From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.
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Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not . . . ”—Badu pauses to get her words together she wants this point to be very clear—“. . . when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing.
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I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
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I create my own calm and I keep my balance, because I know that it's not really me, by myself... The Creator always gives me the energy.
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All the women in my family were very creative.
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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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