Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes

Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.

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• I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'

  

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• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

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• It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

  

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• The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.

  

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• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  

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• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

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• I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

  

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• 'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.

  

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• When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.

  

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• Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

  

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• My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'

  

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• Bengaluru is home for me. Being from Udupi, Karnataka, I have many relatives in Bengaluru. I used to come down for Bangalore Fashion Week. It was a lot of fun, and I had made so many good friends.

  

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• If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

  

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• Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Revolutionary