Erykah Badu Quotes

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Erykah Badu

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 26, 1971

There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.

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No one chooses to raise children alone.

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Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.

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I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.

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I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.

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Music and the music business are two different things.

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Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

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I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot of water. Have a wheatgrass shot. Drink some green juice. Eat as healthy as I can.

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I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.

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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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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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I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

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I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

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Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

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Honey isn't really that good for you.

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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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Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.

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Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one.

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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 read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

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