Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.
Quotes to Explore
-
Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
-
My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
-
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
-
We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
-
There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
-
I've never been a partier.
-
If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
-
But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
-
Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
-
I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
-
I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'
-
We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
-
I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
-
TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
-
I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
-
I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
-
Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
-
Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.
-
Everything on the internet is real god damn it!
-
Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
-
I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child, and hopefully children, as my mom was to me.
-
I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
-
I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.
-
All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.
