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I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.

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
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Everyone
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A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.
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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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Better think while it's still legal.
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I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.
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I love putting the music together. It's like art
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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 makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.
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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.
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I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.
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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 think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.
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I try to be honest and I keep moving.
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I remember when I signed with Kedar Entertainment through Universal Records. It was my first record deal and it's the one I still have now. At that time, there had been a couple of opportunities I was almost given, but at the last minute the giver came back and told me it couldn't happen.
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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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The metal or the stone that's helping me .I'll incorporate them into anything I wear - but I think it's about accessories more than anything, because it's how you accessorize yourself that gives you your own unique style.
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I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
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Music and the music business are two different things.
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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 don't require sex for happiness - I need companionship. I need a partner I can depend on, that I can love and grow with.
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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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