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\n\tErykah Badu accepts the Group of the Year award at Billboard Women In Music 2025.<\/p>\n
Erykah Badu:
Thank you so much. Hey. Thank you so much. Peace and love, how y\u2019all feel. Sisters, how y\u2019all feel? This night is for us. It\u2019s a night to celebrate the womb of the world, the womb of life, the womb-iverse of all things. The smartest creature on planet Earth. The wisest, the most invincible, sexiest, purest, finest. The woman. Thank you so much. I want to thank God for giving me the opportunity to be born a woman. I\u2019m coming. I want to thank my mother and all the mothers. Miss Tina, you said it well. All the mothers. I see Doechii\u2019s mama out there, all the mothers. Thank you so much for giving us so much inspiration and examples of what it means to be resilient, what it means to take charge, what it means to be courageous, what it means to be authentically ourselves. And that\u2019s all we gonna be. That\u2019s all I want to be. I don\u2019t really have a lot of things to say, but I want to end with this story. My daughter is out here. Her name is Puma. She\u2019s over there. My sister Joy is out there. This is for both of y\u2019all. But here\u2019s my story. I was bathing my youngest daughter, Mars, and Mars was about four. And I was bathing her. And I was washing her up. You know, you teach them while you\u2019re washing them up. And I said, \u201cand this is the vagina.\u201d And she said, \u201coh, vagina.\u201d Yeah. I said, \u201cyes, it\u2019s the vagina. It\u2019s the most important thing on the planet.\u201d And Mars said, \u201cReally?\u201d Then she looked at me with those big brown eyes and she said, \u201cwhere is the planet\u2019s vagina?\u201d<\/p>\n