Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes

People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.

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• I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.

  

  Ian McShane
  • People
  • Done
  • Successful

• Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.

  

  J. Cole
  • Like
  • Sometimes
  • Try

• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • May
  • Truth
  • Day

• Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Violence
  • Social Media

• It was a labor of love and they did really well.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Love
  • Really
  • Labor

• Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Way
  • Superior

• Speed can't always get you wickets.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • You
  • Always
  • Speed

• It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Act
  • Smoke
  • Absurd

• The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Attention
  • First
  • Presidential

• I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Strong Woman

• Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Would
  • Definitely
  • Ralph

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Work
  • Country

• I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Feeling

• When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Like
  • Trump
  • Silent

• My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job
  • You
  • Washington

• I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Different
  • Problem

• A family is something that I definitely want, but I'm 26, so I have plenty of time, and I try not to kind of confuse the two because, if I'm lucky enough, I want to make having a baby a personal decision rather than a career-defined one.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Time
  • Family
  • Career

• The system decides you can't run schools in the summer.

  

  Geoffrey Canada
  • Summer

• I've lived in so many different towns - Guttenberg, Union City, West New York, Jersey City. We didn't have a lot of money, and we'd get kicked out of places a lot.

  

  AJ Lee
  • Different
  • Money
  • City

• The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

  

  Lucinda Williams
  • Song
  • Perfect
  • Singing

• People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • People
  • Music
  • Hip Hop