Erykah Badu Quotes

• Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one.

  Erykah Badu

  Topics in Baby

  Tags in Together, Straight

• It’s almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It’s their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it’s harder for us.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Black, Cloud, Heads, Philosophy

• What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I’m a good person to society. That’s hard. The talent, that’s a gift. I just came here like that.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Work Hard, Path, Talent

• But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Realize, Needs

• I have a master plan as an artist. I’ve always said I’m not going to be punching nobody’s clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

  Erykah Badu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Clock, Survive

• I don’t feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience’s ability to feel me.

  Erykah Badu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Preach, Underestimate, Listeners, Share

• 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.

  Erykah Badu

  Topics in Gift

  Tags in Creator, Work Hard, Appreciate

• I’m not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.

  Erykah Badu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Explanations, Satisfied

• Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don’t have sense enough to take advantage of that.

  Erykah Badu

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Acquainted, Advantage

• As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it’s about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that’s completion.

  Erykah Badu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Influenced, Wrapped

• What makes me furious, not just because we’re in an interview, but I don’t like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

  Erykah Badu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Furious, Writer

• Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That’s what I want to do.

  Erykah Badu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marvin, Spoke, Revolutionary

• I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that’s cool. Let’s look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

  Erykah Badu

  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Gesture, Slightest, Diva, Holiday, Singer

• Man, I don’t want to have nothing to do with computers. I don’t want the government in my business.

  Erykah Badu

  Topics in Computer

• 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.

  Erykah Badu

  Topics in Compromise

• I believed in myself, and I’ve always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

  Erykah Badu

• I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I’m not judgmental. And I’m a vegetarian.

  Erykah Badu

• Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It’s nothing I work real hard at doing.

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• The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Motivated

• The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

  Erykah Badu

Erykah Badu (52)

Birth:	26th February, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Lyricist, Record Producer, Singer

About

Erykah Abi Wright, better known by her stage name Erykah Badu was born in Dallas, Texas, USA. She is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Her first album, Baduizm, was released on February 11, 1997. It spawned three singles: "On & On", "Next Lifetime" and "Otherside of the Game". The album was certified triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Her albums list shown below: But You Caint Use My Phone, Mama's Gun, Live, and Worldwide Underground. Her role in several films include: The Cider House Rules, House of D, and Before the Music Dies.

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