Erykah Badu Quotes
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I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me.
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I think giving is a blind act that should come from a part of me that sees no discrimination (that's why I called it "blind").
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I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.
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You don't have to believe everything you think.
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It just works better for me to discriminate between which thoughts are mine and which come from elsewhere, before I even talk about them or express them - it helps to keep me focused on my path.
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I think that when Riccardo Tisci wanted to bring more attention to the lack of African American presence on the runway, he also wanted to bring attention to the lack of a sensibility of African and Asian art.
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Better think while it's still legal.
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I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.
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I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.
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I have a pair of blue pants that were my favorite for a while and were a part of my show uniform - every night, you know.
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I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it - in science - sympathetic vibrations.
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I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.
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I got a call from a mutual friend of ours, Charles King, who's also the executive producer. [Steven Caple Jr and I] had a conversation about it. I read it. We kind of finished each other's sentences when it came to the nuances and personality flaws that the character had, and some stereotypes and things we were trying to stay away from. We agreed on that as well. He just kind of allowed me to run rampant with the ideas. As we paced ourselves through, we developed Turquoise.
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People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.
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I have a Pinterest, and if you look there you'll see the things I really like and adore, have crushes on, and there's a lot of stuff from Riccardo's [Tisci] line on there.
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My girls are very fashionable. They have a very good eye for marrying style and fashion.
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Honey isn't really that good for you.
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I view my hair and clothes as functional art.
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Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.
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I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.
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I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.
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I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.
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It's just that little box in the middle of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Most of the time I go I don't even leave that apartment. I have just enough: a little bed, a little kitchen with two pots. I make some tea and I look out the window or just lay down.
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Be you. Make sure you're saying something when you're saying something. It's important to sound like you, to feel like you, to be like you. Be you.