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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.

Erykah Badu

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Erykah Badu
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 26
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Dallas
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Erica Abi Wright
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I relate to that - he inspires me across the board. His music inspires me and reminds me to maintain honesty in the things that I do, to have an absence of fear. Listening to Earl Sweatshirt's music is like therapy to me.
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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 have a pair of blue pants that were my favorite for a while and were a part of my show uniform - every night, you know.
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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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I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.
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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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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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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 grew up listening to old soul
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The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
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I thought it was cool how [ Riccardo Tisci] wanted to blend Africa and Asia because they relate to each other in so many different ways.
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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'm pretty mutable as a human being.
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Things are useless without practice.
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I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
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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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I view my hair and clothes as functional art.
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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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Im a hip-hopper, and its something you live and do. It makes me angry that were misrepresented, that were being killed every day by one another, by the government, by the food we eat, the choices we make. It makes me angry because it doesnt have to be that way and it is.
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