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"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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"Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes."
"I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless."
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"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."
"I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster."
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"Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away."
"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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