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.

Erykah Badu

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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.

  

  Barry Lopez
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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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• We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

  

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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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• When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.

  

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• Dawn, ever bearing some divine increase Of beauty, love, and wisdom round the world, Dawn, like a wild-rose in the fields of heaven Washed grey with dew, awoke, and found the barque At anchor in a little land-locked bay.

  

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• The sense of justice and injustice is not deriv'd from nature, but arises artificially… from education, and human conventions.

  

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• I understood that this is not personal. I came in and I stood for something. For some people, I stood for change they didn’t want. It wasn’t really about me, it was just about the new directions for the academy, the new directions for our world, that are threatening to some people.

  

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• There are at the present time two great nations in the world-allude to the Russians and the Americans- All other nations seem to have nearly reached their national limits, and have only to maintain their power; these alone are proceeding-along a path to which no limit can be perceived.

  

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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