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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
Useless
Practice
Without
Things

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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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I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.
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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 have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to be. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, the places that your heart takes you. But continue to follow it. Where the train leads you - you'll get there.
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Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.
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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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I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.
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I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.
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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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What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.
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I love putting the music together. It's like art
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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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Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.
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I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.
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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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Better think while it's still legal.
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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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What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.
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I strongly believe that the more positive my vibration is, the clearer my message will be. I keep my negative thoughts from infiltrating my pathway and my dreams. Other people's thoughts are none of my business.
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A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.
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