Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.
Quotes to Explore
-
My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
-
Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it.
-
If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
-
It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
-
I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
-
My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
-
One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
-
I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game.
-
The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.
-
It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
-
Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
-
I used to be a professional kiteboarder. People were like, 'Oh, my God, are you scared of sharks? Are you scared of injuries?' You can't be scared. If you're scared, then you can't do it. You can't train to be the best.
-
I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
-
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
-
So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
-
I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
-
My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
-
What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
-
My mom often tells me to get married, but she gets it now that I don't want to. Like any other mom, she is worried, but she also understands the demands of my profession. I am blessed to have a family like this.
-
The rule of the Morrell family was over, and Richard owned a used-car lot and Monica worked at a nail salon, until one day she got run over by a bus. Very sad.
-
I love fashion and appreciate it so much, and I feel like it's moving artwork going down a runway.
-
Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities.
-
McLeavy: I'm innocent. (A little unsure of himself, the beginnings of panic) Doesn't that mean anything to you?
-
I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.
