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" Between '06 and '09, I dealt with pain by eating. And I was like, 'Oh, crap, eating makes you gain weight!' "
India Arie
Gain
Dealt
Eating
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" I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy. "
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" In Denver, all we really had was pop radio, so I grew up on all that late '70s pop stuff - Billy Joel, James Taylor, Lionel Richie, Elton John, Steve Miller and Toto. Great love songs and really hooky and melodic music - I have all of that stuff in my heart. "
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" That's the kind of music I want SoulBird to represent: music with intelligence and heart, music that moves people in their souls and their bodies. Music with wings. "
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" I like Brandy a lot. She's a vocal prodigy. "
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" I love my brownness. "
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I Love
" Your soul is between you and God. "
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" Neo-soul is really less about a sound than it is about a look, in my opinion. "
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Less
Look
" There's just something creatively fulfilling about watching a movie and writing a song for it because it helps you put on another pair of shoes. "
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You
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" I write about my experiences, so a lot of times, I do write about people. "
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" I think anyone who is ever on TV is a role model for somebody. "
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" Our food choices show up on our body. "
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" Obviously, I've been heartbroken. We all know what that feels like. "
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Like
Know
" 'Open Door' was a world music project and bilingual. It was in Hebrew and English, and it's great. I do think it's really beautiful. But it's very emotional and very dark - in a good way. "
India Arie
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" Songs like 'Peaceful World' and songs that are responsible with their lyrics and talk about love and harmony can take the forefront and do something for real. "
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World
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" It's OK to wear white in the wintertime. Do what you want. "
India Arie
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Wear
White
" When I was growing up, I only saw really brown people on 'The Cosby Show,' and they were rich, and their parents were doctors. It wasn't like my home. "
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Parents
Home
" Denying any person their humanity is a game we should all stop playing. "
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Person
Playing
" I feel like I'm always gonna sing and write songs because it's me. "
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Me
Sing
" It's not my place to say how Zoe Saldana perceives herself, and I can't say how anybody else perceives her, either. I see her as a black person of Hispanic origin, but I don't even know what that really means, because I don't know anything about race and Hispanic culture. "
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Say
Culture
" There are a lot of men who like women with a brain. "
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" Could a person really make a social contribution through music consciously? I mean, beyond making a person happy to hear the song and more making a social contribution consciously through your music? For me, Stevie Wonder is the paragon of that. And I didn't want to be Stevie Wonder, but I did want to do what he does. "
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Want
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" With 'Acoustic Soul,' I saw my music as sparse. But I didn't do that because I was making a commitment to be commercial. That's what made 'Acoustic Soul' so difficult to produce. It took 2 1/2 years because I couldn't figure out what I wanted and still be commercial. "
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Soul
Commitment
Difficult
" I always pray when I write songs that my spirit guides, or whoever is with me, inspiring me, would let me speak the truth. "
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Pray
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Always
" If we can just focus our attention where it matters, we can effect change. "
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" I loved her music and the fact that she was a classically trained pianist and that her voice was so unique, but what made Nina Simone my hero is that I had never seen anyone in the public eye who looked anything like me at all, ever. "
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" The thought crossed my mind about not wanting to alienate my fan base, but I don't know what would alienate them or bring them in, so I decided not to think about it. "
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Bring
Know
" The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of. "
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Afraid
Alive
Feel
" What I love about Christmas music is it stays around every year and comes back. "
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Year
Love
" Music lives in my mother - she's played in bands in Detroit and toured and did the whole thing. So I have somebody who's done it all to just talk to. And we write songs together. "
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She
" When it comes down to the song writing, I'm just very slow - very slow. Because the songs are about my life, so I'm doing emotional work on myself. "
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