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If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.

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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All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.
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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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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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A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.
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I'm only in competition with my last level.
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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 don't know... I've been doing it for 17 years now, so of course I've seen pictures and thought, Oh my god, I wish I would've never worn that. Yeah, but I did! And it was probably because it was my favorite thing at the time - my clothes always have some kind of emotion attached to them.
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I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.
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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 grew up listening to old soul
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All the women in my family were very creative.
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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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I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.
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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've been a vegetarian since I was 19.
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My favorite jewelry, it's just what I'm feeling at the time.
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I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.
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I try to be honest and I keep moving.
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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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I imagine that when I am creating a song or a project or an album or putting some clothing together or cooking a meal, whatever it is, I don't really have a recipe. The fun part is to throw that big piece of clay in the middle of the table as hard as I can, and whatever shape it takes, that's what shape it takes, and then I start to carve away.
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