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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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 was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black.
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I wasn't taking so many drugs that it was messing up my creative processes. It was a very good period, 1968 - there was a good feeling in the air. It was a very creative period for everyone.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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It's odd. Fifty percent of me feels it's the right time to be closing this. The other 50 percent of me is saying it's more than a show. It's a group of people that love each other. It's a group of people that come together every day trying to make America laugh, and what better thing is there to do than that?
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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.
