Erykah Badu famous quotes

I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it - in science - sympathetic vibrations.
-- Erykah Badu

#Thinking #People #Vibrations

When you're performing, you're creating a moment.
-- Erykah Badu

#Creating #Moments #Performing

Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not . . . ”—Badu pauses to get her words together; she wants this point to be very clear—“. . . when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing.
-- Erykah Badu

#Confusing #Together #Males

Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.
-- Erykah Badu

#Sound #Albums #Projects

Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.
-- Erykah Badu

#Mean #Soul #Vegan

The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good on the inside.
-- Erykah Badu

#Light #Strive #Be Good

I live in a queendom, ruled by a womb-iverse,
-- Erykah Badu

#Womb

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

#Art #Hurt #Thinking

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

#Love Life #Systematic #Vegetarian

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.
-- Erykah Badu

#Mother #Strong Women #Long

Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.
-- Erykah Badu

#Evolve

I try to be honest and I keep moving.
-- Erykah Badu

#Moving #Trying #Honest

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
-- Erykah Badu

#Business #Feelings #Energy

I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.
-- Erykah Badu

#Self #Creating #Decision

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

#Artist #World #Punching

I mean thats 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 loved one, and the lesson is to accept and not expect.
-- Erykah Badu

#Mean #Making Love #Lessons

No one chooses to raise children alone.
-- Erykah Badu

#Children #Raises

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.
-- Erykah Badu

#Artist #Mold #Needs

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

#Hard Work #Appreciate #Musical

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.
-- Erykah Badu

#Respect #Thinking #People

All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.
-- Erykah Badu

#Art #Giving #Labels

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.
-- Erykah Badu

#Teaching #Self #Groups

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time
-- Erykah Badu

#Art #Different #Albums

Better think while it's still legal.
-- Erykah Badu

#Thinking #Stills

Music and the music business are two different things.
-- Erykah Badu

#Business #Two #Different

Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.
-- Erykah Badu

#Hip Hop #Feelings #Hips

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
-- Erykah Badu

#Congratulations

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

#Opportunity #America #House

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.
-- Erykah Badu

#Hurt #Emotional #Thinking

I know that I want to concentrate more on my inside-pretty than my outside-pretty, because thats gonna go away. But if your inside is beautiful, it never wears away. The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good inside.
-- Erykah Badu

#Beautiful #Light #Going Away

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

#Musician #Kind

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.
-- Erykah Badu

#Jobs #Honest #Being Honest

Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.
-- Erykah Badu

#Heart #Mind #Want

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.
-- Erykah Badu

#People #Black #Stories

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

#Artist

If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.
-- Erykah Badu

#Negativity #Hanging Out

I'm more like an oven than a microwave,
-- Erykah Badu

#Microwaves #Ovens

Don't let anybody infiltrate your dream
-- Erykah Badu

#Dream

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.
-- Erykah Badu

#Humans

Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.
-- Erykah Badu

#Music #Hip Hop #Top 10

People are uncomfortable with sexuality that’s not for male consumption.
-- Erykah Badu

#People #Males #Sexuality

Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.
-- Erykah Badu

#Blessing #Lesson Learned #Would Be

Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.
-- Erykah Badu

#Government #Hip Hop #Hips