Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

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• His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

  

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• The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.

  

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• Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.

  

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• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

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• When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

  

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• Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

  

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• I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

  

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• My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.

  

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• I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

  

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• Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.

  

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• Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

  

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• I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'

  

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• If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

  

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• I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

  

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• I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.

  

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• In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

  

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• Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

  

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• The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

  

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• There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.

  

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• Read about the history of magic.

  

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• I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Enough