Erykah Badu quotes

Erykah Badu is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress known for her unique style and soulful music. Her work helped pioneer the neo-soul movement and blends jazz, hip-hop, and R&B influences. She is recognized for her thought-provoking lyrics and distinctive artistic presence. Here are 69 of her quotes:

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 a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

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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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I've been vegan for two years and vegetarian for 20 years. I used to be a dancer, and so health and vitality have always been important to me. I wouldn't say it took any one big event, vegetarianism just always made sense to me. [What farmed animals] endure is just terrible. It's horrible ... Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.

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Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

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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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I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

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Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

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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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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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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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The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

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Music and the music business are two different 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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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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I love putting the music together. It's like art.

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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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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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I've learned so many things since then. I've changed in a way that involves elimination for the sake of evolution. There's less emphasis on trying to figure things out. It's about letting things be. I'm focusing on listening to the silence underneath everything. That's what I try to connect with. I can listen to the silence right here, right now while we're talking, and it feels so good. I'm in love with the silence.

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I think it's necessary. The world creates things up out of prayers that people pray and have. Things begin to move accordingly to how we all collectively think. When you see collectives moving on something you know that there's going to be some kind of mass migration to a higher place, and I see that in the world as a whole, not just in America. I see it all over the globe. People are organizing and fusing together to make change, and it's inspiring. I think it's part of the natural order of things. We're evolving, and what helps us evolve is social media. Social media is social evolution. It's sparking a great change.

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Discipline is important, we need to be more focused on what we put into our bodies.

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I don't regret anything. I don't like to make people feel uncomfortable or bad. But people are very sensitive in this climate. It's very understandable. I totally understand. I get mad with them. I get it...But no. I would never take back a message of love...I'm sorry that it was misunderstood. But not sorry for saying it because it was from a place of love. And sometimes that happens.

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