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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.

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
Back
Putting
Music
Forms
World
Dance
Theater
Focus
Community
Art
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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'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time
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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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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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There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.
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I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.
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Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness.
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People are uncomfortable with sexuality that’s not for male consumption.
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Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.
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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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I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.
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I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
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It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.
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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 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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I have an apartment in Brooklyn - I guess I call it my shrine. I go there to create and recoup, or hibernate sometimes, but my home is in Dallas where I live with my children.
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I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.
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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.
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I think giving is a blind act that should come from a part of me that sees no discrimination (that's why I called it blind).
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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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