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Singer-songwriter

Erykah Badu, born on February 26, 1971, is an American singer-songwriter known for her unique musical style and emotive voice. She is regarded as one of the key figures in R&B music of the 1990s.

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Famous Erykah Badu Quotes

“If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.”

Ifs Should Decision Sticks Pact

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“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.”

Ifs Philosophy Walks Failing Sick Locks Walks Of Life

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

Ifs Humans I Can Human Beings Figures Periods Pluto

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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.”

Ifs Want Believe Certain Speak Language Audience Generations Relate

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“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.”

Ifs Ideas Together Race Nice Share Albums Plus Fitting

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“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.”

Ifs Knows Able Desire My Own Practice Training Midwife Almost There

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“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.”

People Ifs Want Lasts Next Breathe Welcome Committees

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

Ifs Way I Can Lines Projects Ducks

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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.”

Ifs World Needs Feels Ability Audience Share Listeners Underestimate Never Underestimate Underestimated

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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.”

Ifs World Wells Looks Enough America Culture Opportunity House Can Do Advantage Great Opportunity

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“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.”

People Ifs Way Feels Looks Made I Can Style Hair Wraps Completion

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“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.”

Ifs Looks Persons Feelings Hands Beautiful Moving Sound Ability Emotion Audience Singers Holiday Gestures

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“I don't know if I'll ever accomplish most of my dreams - I have so many.”

Ifs Knows Dream Accomplish

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“I have a Pinterest, and if you look there you'll see the things I really like and adore, have crushes on, and there's a lot of stuff from Riccardo's [Tisci] line on there.”

Ifs Looks Stuff Lines Crush Adore Pinterest

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“My second mother is my maternal grandmother. Her name is Thelma. She also gave me a very powerful medicine; she made sure that I knew my role as a young lady and as someone with moral structures and principles. She taught me that if I was going to be involved with anything, whether it be spirituality, music, or some skill, that I have to practice.”

Ifs Made Young Mother Spirituality Names Powerful Moral Principles Roles Practice Taught Involved Skills Structure Medicine Grandmother Very Powerful Young Ladies

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“I was the bohemian in my family, the "this is my favorite shoe and I don't care if it has tape around it" kind of person. The tape could become a fashion statement. Or a political statement.”

Ifs Kind Persons Care Political Fashion My Family Shoes My Favorite Don't Care Statements I Don't Care Tape Bohemian Fashion Statement

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“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.”

Ifs Knows Want Shows Light Beautiful Strive Be Good Going Away

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“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.”

Ifs Mean Soul Form Pure Your Soul Vegan Truthful Truest Vegan Food Food For The Soul

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“If we were made in his image then call us by our names. Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same”

Ifs Believe Made Names Intellect Believe In God

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“Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.”

Ifs Wells Would Be Wealth Lessons Blessing Manifest Lesson Learned

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“The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good on the inside.”

Ifs Shows Light Strive Be Good

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“If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.”

Ifs Hanging Out Invites Negativity

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About the Author

Born: February 26, 1971
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 216

Books & Sources

Erykah Badu - Baduizm SongbookRelated source material

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