Top 100 Erykah Badu Quotes

#1. I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

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#2. Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.

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#3. I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.

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#4. I trust the political system to be what it is. It's a structure to keep the country running, a boat to get us [citizens] from one side to the other, and it has the country's best interests at heart. Not the people's.

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#5. When it come to da: " What it do?! I don't fall for da: "Woop- TeE- WoOoo!

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#6. 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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#7. I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

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#8. My style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season.

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#9. We're all friends, inside the music and outside the music. I mean, we don't sound anything alike, we don't approach our music anything alike, but we come from the same genuine place. We want our music to be real and we don't want to compromise our art.

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#10. They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don't have a lot of things that give them joy from day to day.

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#11. I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.

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#12. Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you

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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. I know that I want to concentrate more on my inside-pretty than my outside-pretty, because thats gonna go away. But if your inside is beautiful, it never wears away. The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good inside.

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#16. 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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#17. Better think while it's still legal.

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#18. As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.

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#19. 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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#20. My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that I can communicate with the voice of this generation.

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#21. Music and the music business are two different things.

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#22. I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.

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#23. I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is.

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#24. I mean thats a big part of our existence here on earth, the personal relationship we have with the person that we love, with the person that we make love to, with the person that we share our lives with. We expect a lot of things back from our loved one, and the lesson is to accept and not expect.

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#25. I view my hair and clothes as functional art ...

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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

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#29. What a frequency What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn't imagine a music world without his voice.

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#30. 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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#31. I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.

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#32. What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.

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#33. 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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#34. I live in a queendom, ruled by a womb-iverse,

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#35. I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it - in science - sympathetic vibrations.

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#36. A home birth is about being able to create exactly what you want, because it's such a violent moment inside of the body that you want everything else to be as beautiful as it can be.

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#37. I love putting the music together. It's like art.

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

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#39. Following your heart also means eliminating the things that no longer evolve you.

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#40. 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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#41. Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.

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#42. 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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#43. I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

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#44. I don't plan how many people I work with. I don't charge anything. It's for my own learning, and I just enjoy being the welcoming committee. I became a doula by default.

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#45. I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want, so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally.

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#46. Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.

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#47. He definitely does what a partner is supposed to do, that is, evolve you.

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#48. I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

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#49. So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.

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

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#51. We were all born, and we all came to the music business with everything we had. Some of us just don't get a chance. Now there's a lot of other people like myself, indeed, who are getting heard worldwide. That gives other artists a chance.

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#52. 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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#53. I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.

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#54. I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.

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#55. What opens my heart is when my son wakes me up in the morning, nudging me and saying, 'Mommy, mommy!'

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#56. What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

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#57. 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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#58. 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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#59. Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

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#60. I'm more like an oven than a microwave,

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#61. I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me.

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#62. We literally just finished making this gown 20 minutes ago. I love it. It's my favorite color.

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#63. Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

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#64. During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.

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#65. Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.

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#66. We lock ourselves into our own philosophies, our own religions, our own walks of life, and if we fail, we condemn ourselves and then we get sick.

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#67. Don't let anybody infiltrate your dream

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#68. I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.

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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. Im a hip-hopper, and its something you live and do. It makes me angry that were misrepresented, that were being killed every day by one another, by the government, by the food we eat, the choices we make. It makes me angry because it doesnt have to be that way and it is.

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#72. I'm a recovering undercover over-lover.

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#73. 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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#74. I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

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#75. 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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#76. I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.

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#77. I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.

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#78. Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.

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#79. The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.

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#80. People are uncomfortable with sexuality that's not for male consumption.

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#81. I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not share it, I'm always writing songs or coming up with melodic lines on piano or guitar. It's therapy. It's always happening.

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#82. A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.

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#83. Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

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#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

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#87. 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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#88. 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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#89. I really can't say what inspires me the most, because I'm inspired by just about everything. My feelings and relationships, my family, Scooby-Doo. Opinion of my work. Everything. Not just one thing.

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#90. It's weird, but if I decide to do an album, then the ideas start fitting themselves together. I consider myself a nice, slow burn. Plus, it's not a race. And I have a lot to share.

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#91. No one chooses to raise children alone.

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#92. I grew up listening to old soul.

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#93. 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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#94. I try to be honest and I keep moving.

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#95. I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.

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#96. And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

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#97. I figure, if the mind just 'has' to be busy,why not make up happy shit?

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#98. I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.

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#99. 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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#100. I really enjoy being the child's 'welcoming committee' and to help someone usher his or her spirit into the world in a very peaceful way is very effortless to me.

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