Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes

Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.

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• If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Country
  • You
  • Stability

• I turned down a lot of films.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Down
  • Films
  • Lot

• I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • World
  • Think
  • Moment

• One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Community
  • New York

• In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Death
  • Culture
  • Present

• It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • People
  • Truth
  • Me

• I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Think
  • Scary

• I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Believe
  • Choices
  • Decisions

• Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Most
  • Concepts
  • Bitcoin

• Entrepreneurial Philanthropy is not just a philosophy or a dream. It is a promise that philanthropy is at its best when it is founded on entrepreneurial zest and agility.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Philosophy

• I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Up
  • House
  • Player

• If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

  

  Edmund White
  • America
  • Today
  • Desire

• In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Business
  • You
  • Waiting

• Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Great
  • Death
  • Mum

• Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Peace

• I get notes posted on my windscreen wipers and through my letterbox.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Get
  • Through
  • Notes

• We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Information
  • Leaving
  • Accept

• All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Joy
  • Sorrow
  • Out

• I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It's been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.

  

  Maria Sharapova

• If two people cannot live together, both should have the right to opt out of the marriage. In an ideal world, that would be an acceptable solution.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Men
  • Think
  • Signature

• Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.

  

  Erykah Badu
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