Quotes by Erykah Badu about People

13 quotes by Erykah Badu about people

Erykah Badu American Musician

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to...

EQuote by Erykah Badu about people

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.

EQuote by Erykah Badu about people

However, our society thinks that success means having a car and a lot of money and looking as white as you can or as American as you can. Or if you're white, looking as exotic as you can. We don't have any idea that it's about our hearts and our...

EQuote by Erykah Badu about people

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...

EQuote by Erykah Badu about people

I mean that's a big part of our existence here on earth, the personal relationship we have with the person that we love, with the person that we make love to, with the person that we share our lives with. We expect a lot of things back from our...

EQuote by Erykah Badu about people

I was new again. I never thought I had an opportunity to...

I was new again. I never thought I had an opportunity to walk in and not have people expecting things.

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I'm a critic, man, I'm really hard on people, but when I...

I'm a critic, man, I'm really hard on people, but when I listen to Omar I just listen. He's like medicine, I feel like I can be healed.

EQuote by Erykah Badu about people

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.

EQuote by Erykah Badu about people

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.

EQuote by Erykah Badu about people

It's not wrong for us to be together, it's wrong for us to put down each other and depreciate each other's values. Black people have been depreciated a lot here in America; that's a true thing.

EQuote by Erykah Badu about people

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...

EQuote by Erykah Badu about people

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.

EQuote by Erykah Badu about people

What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out...

EQuote by Erykah Badu about people

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