Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling. Erykah Badu More Quotes by Erykah Badu More Quotes From Erykah Badu I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head. Erykah Badu persons natural mind If we were made in his image then call us by our names. Erykah Badu names made believe 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. Erykah Badu house opportunity america In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’ Erykah Badu wake-up morning 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. Erykah Badu communication mean thinking I'm more like an oven than a microwave. Erykah Badu microwaves ovens I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school. Erykah Badu satisfied tvs school 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. Erykah Badu locks sick philosophy My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing. Erykah Badu nursing passing-on home My fifth mother is Mother Nature - the things I had to learn on my own, the understanding I had to come to and still have to come to as a young woman, as a responsible mother, a responsible granddaughter and child. She teaches me willpower, honesty, and the things we need to heal ourselves from moment to moment. Erykah Badu honesty mother children I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out. Erykah Badu pluto figures periods I don't know why, it's just what I feel inside, the thoughts that I sing about. It's just my truth. Sometimes my emotions can be mistaken for messages. Erykah Badu emotion messages sometimes I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen. Erykah Badu congratulations happens I don't know... I've been doing it for 17 years now, so of course I've seen pictures and thought, "Oh my god, I wish I would've never worn that." Yeah, but I did! And it was probably because it was my favorite thing at the time - my clothes always have some kind of emotion attached to them. Erykah Badu clothes wish years 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. Erykah Badu singing mean people I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water. Erykah Badu splashing stills water I think [ fashion philosophy] it's about your smile and your smell. Erykah Badu fashion philosophy thinking Poor is the new black. Erykah Badu black poor I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers. Erykah Badu mother teacher long My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don't have nothing to do with your new friend Erykah Badu green eye vegetables
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