Erykah BaduMarvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.371LoveThought
Erykah BaduI'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.372LifeLove
Erykah BaduPeace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned. ✨ Song: On And On, Album: Baduizm, 1997362Humor
Erykah BaduI'm only in competition with my last level.374Reading
Erykah BaduI 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.311Reflection
Erykah BaduFrom then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy i… ▶377Love
Erykah BaduI encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.311Hope
Erykah BaduIt's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have,… ▶367HumanityPhilosophy
Erykah BaduI try to be honest and I keep moving. ✨ The Survivors: Erykah Badu. GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 3, 2011.334Truth
Erykah Badu...When it come to da: What it do?! I don't fall for da: Woop- TeE- WoOoo!291Reflection
Erykah BaduThe Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.303Time
Erykah BaduI don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog. ✨ The Survivors: Erykah Badu. GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 3, 2011.336Life
Erykah BaduMan, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.325Politics
Erykah BaduAnything 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.326Life
Erykah BaduNo one chooses to raise children alone.3610Reading
Erykah BaduDon't let anybody infiltrate your dream ✨ Before the Music Dies. Documentary, Music, www.imdb.com. March 12, 2006.283Death
Erykah BaduThis pain to remain the same outweigh the pain to change... When you get tired enough is when you begin to want to sacrifice everything inside of you—the fear just leaves305Sadness
Erykah BaduI view my hair and clothes as functional art. ✨ Erykah Badu, Ledisi and Solange Cover ESSENCE's May Beauty Issue. Essence Magazine Interview, www.essence.com. April 1, … ▶294Life
Erykah BaduAs 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 peopl… ▶349Humanity
Erykah BaduWhat 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… ▶294Time
Erykah BaduI grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.349Reading
Erykah BaduI love putting the music together. It's like art338Love
Erykah BaduI know that I want to concentrate more on my inside-pretty than my outside-pretty, because thats gonna go away. But if your inside is beautiful, it never wears away. The light alw… ▶316Humanity
Erykah BaduThe light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good on the inside.295Life
Erykah BaduArtists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you … ▶3410LifeSadnessTime
Erykah BaduHoney isn't really that good for you.339Reading
Erykah BaduWe as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written… ▶295Humanity
Erykah BaduThe kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.329Humanity
Erykah BaduI 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 … ▶3210Death
Erykah BaduPersonally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creato… ▶308Humanity
