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

No one chooses to raise children alone.

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

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

I don't require sex for happiness - I need companionship. I need a partner I can depend on, that I can love and grow with.

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

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

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.

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.

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

When you're performing, you're creating a moment.

I'm just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.

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

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.

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.

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

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

What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.

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

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

I create my own calm and I keep my balance, because I know that it's not really me, by myself ... The Creator always gives me the energy.

The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.

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.

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

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

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

I'm more like an oven than a microwave,

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

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

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.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

Better think while it's still legal.

Be you. Make sure you're saying something when you're saying something. It's important to sound like you, to feel like you, to be like you. Be you.

I try to be honest and I keep moving.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.

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

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

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.

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.

Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

Now keep in mind that I'm an artist and I'm sensitive about my sh*t

I grew up listening to old soul.

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.

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

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

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

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

When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.

I live in a queendom, ruled by a womb-iverse,

Honey isn't really that good for you.

People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.

My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables,
It don't have nothing to do with your new friend

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

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

I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

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

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

My hair is an aesthetic choice ... At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.

I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.

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

I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.

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

I was born to make mistakes, I ain't scared to take the weight.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.

I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.

All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.

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

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

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

I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen.

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

Don't let anybody infiltrate your dream

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

I'm only in competition with my last level.

If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.

The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.

Music and the music business are two different things.

I'm a recovering undercover over-lover.

Art is the absence of fear.

All I want to do is give the world my heart ... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.

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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