Erykah Badu
[Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.Collection: Interesting
My mom was the Diana Ross of our clan. She was always up-to-date, and always knew what to do and what not to do in a fashion sense.Collection: Mom
All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.Collection: Art
Things are useless without practice.Collection: Practice
Different periods, different cultures - it's just the way my mind works. My music is that way as well. There's a foundation but the inspiration comes from everywhere. I've been influenced by so many things.Collection: Inspiration
The metal or the stone that's helping me .I'll incorporate them into anything I wear - but I think it's about accessories more than anything, because it's how you accessorize yourself that gives you your own unique style.Collection: Unique
I have a pair of blue pants that were my favorite for a while and were a part of my show uniform - every night, you know.Collection: Night
When you're performing, you're creating a moment.Collection: Creating
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.Collection: Crush
A home birth is about being able to create exactly what you want, because it's such a violent moment inside of the body that you want everything else to be as beautiful as it can be.Collection: Beautiful
People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.Collection: People
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.Collection: People
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.Collection: Nice
I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.Collection: New York
I bring the staple of my culture.Collection: Culture
My girls are very fashionable. They have a very good eye for marrying style and fashion.Collection: Girl
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 timeCollection: Art
Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into oneCollection: Baby
People are uncomfortable with sexuality that’s not for male consumption.Collection: People
I really enjoy being the child's 'welcoming committee' and to help someone usher his or her spirit into the world in a very peaceful way is very effortless to me.Collection: Children
If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.Collection: Believe
I have a daughter who's four, who's dainty and princess-esque. I still get to dress her like my little accessory. I think I have one more year to do that, then she's going to get her own ideas - so I better move quickly!Collection: Daughter
All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.Collection: Children
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 happenCollection: Artist
What a frequency What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn't imagine a music world without his voice.Collection: Voice
I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me.Collection: Believe
Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.Collection: Helping Someone
They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don't have a lot of things that give them joy from day to day.Collection: Home
What opens my heart is when my son wakes me up in the morning, nudging me and saying, 'Mommy, mommy!'Collection: Morning
My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that I can communicate with the voice of this generation.Collection: Song
Some people come up and ask for an autograph and don't even look at me. They're like, 'Here, do it.' That don't bother me, but it doesn't open my heart.Collection: Heart
We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.Collection: Art
I go through phases of stuff.Collection: Phases
Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.Collection: Breathing
I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.Collection: Lessons
...When it come to da: " What it do?! I don't fall for da: "Woop- TeE- WoOoo!Collection: Fall
I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.Collection: Art
I'm pretty mutable as a human being.Collection: Humans
I trust the political system to be what it is. It's a structure to keep the country running, a boat to get us [citizens] from one side to the other, and it has the country's best interests at heart. Not the people's.Collection: Running
Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.Collection: Government
André and I are still best of friends, always have been and always will be. When our 18-year-old son, Seven, started high school, we both agreed to be in the same city, so André is in Dallas all the time, and we're always all together doing something.Collection: School
I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy.Collection: Winning
During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.Collection: Song
Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.Collection: Thinking
I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.Collection: Teaching
I have an apartment in Brooklyn - I guess I call it my shrine. I go there to create and recoup, or hibernate sometimes, but my home is in Dallas where I live with my children.Collection: Children
I could do a few more sit-ups and my waistline would be less difficult.Collection: Would Be
I don't plan how many people I work with. I don't charge anything. It's for my own learning, and I just enjoy being the welcoming committee. I became a doula by default.Collection: People
I think [ fashion philosophy] it's about your smile and your smell.Collection: Fashion