Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
Artists 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 want. It's therapy.
Quotes to Explore
-
Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
-
Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
-
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
-
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
-
Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
-
When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
-
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
-
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
-
When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.
-
I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
-
In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
-
I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
-
Any powerful technology can be abused.
-
Cussing ain't for everybody.
-
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
-
It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
-
I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
-
I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
-
Before I did comedy, I'd freestyle with all of my friends. In high school and into college, I recorded songs with my friends, not to perform but just to play for them. So I've had interest in music for a while. Early on, I'd host a lot of music open nights or hip-hop nights, so a lot of my early experience performing was around music.
-
In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.
-
To understand an artist is to be a genius.
-
My daughter gets to paint my nails and put clips in my hair, and I love it.
-
Artists 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 want. It's therapy.
