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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.

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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Israel
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Better think while it's still legal.
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I'm only in competition with my last level.
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My favorite jewelry, it's just what I'm feeling at the time.
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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'm a performance artist first I'm a recording artist second.
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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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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'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.
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Things are useless without practice.
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I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.
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Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.
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I don't require sex for happiness - I need companionship. I need a partner I can depend on, that I can love and grow with.
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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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We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.
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...When it come to da: What it do?! I don't fall for da: Woop- TeE- WoOoo!
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I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.
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