Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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They hate whom they fear.
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I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
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We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters or part of the clean-up team. Just as the language of power and greed has the potential to destroy us, the language of reason and empathy has the power to save us. Writers can inspire a kinder, fairer, more beautiful world, or invite selfishness, stereotyping, and violence. Writers can unite people or divide them.
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We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.
