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.
Erykah BaduMy hair is an aesthetic choiceโฆ At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.
Erykah BaduMy fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director over at the gym where I grew up and learned about all those awesome things I told you about already. She was the one who taught me terms like "upstage" and "downstage," all those technical things about the art of what I do - how to breathe what I see, how to move. They were all her tactics, not anything learned or given to me through a theory, but rather by her natural abilities.
Erykah BaduI 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.
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