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Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.
Erykah Badu
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Erykah Badu
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 26
Actor
Composer
Jazz Musician
Poet
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Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Dallas
Texas
Erica Abi Wright
Erica Wright
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As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.
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I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.
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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 more like an oven than a microwave.
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Music and the music business are two different things.
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I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen
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What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.
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But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
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If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.
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I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.
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We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.
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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'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
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Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.
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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 style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season.
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The girls just like to be in the shoes. They like to scuff up the floors and walk around in high-heeled shoes that are too big for them, all over the house.
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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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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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If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.
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