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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.
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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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 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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...When it come to da: What it do?! I don't fall for da: Woop- TeE- WoOoo!
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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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All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.
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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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My girls are very fashionable. They have a very good eye for marrying style and fashion.
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What I like about houses like Givenchy. It's easy to pull from. With Givenchy you can accessorize to build anything, any look.
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My nine-year-old daughter is very creative and colorful and trendy.
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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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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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