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Erykah Badu

"I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison."

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"I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison."

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Donna Grant

"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."

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Donna Grant

"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."

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Donna Grant

"Give thy thoughts no tongue."

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Donna Grant

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

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Donna Grant

"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."

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Donna Grant

"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."

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Donna Grant

"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

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Donna Grant

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

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Donna Grant

"Doubt isn't original."

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Donna Grant

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."

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

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Erykah Badu
"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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Erykah Badu
"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."

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Erykah Badu
"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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Erykah Badu
"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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Erykah Badu
"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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Erykah Badu
"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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Erykah Badu
"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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Erykah Badu
"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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