Picture Quotes 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 BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes You don't have to believe everything you think. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I don't plan how many people I work with. I don't charge anything. It's for my own learning, and I just enjoy being the welcoming committee. I became a doula by default. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture 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. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I'm just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Poor is the new black. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes My style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes We were all born, and we all came to the music business with everything we had. Some of us just don't get a chance. Now there's a lot of other people like myself, indeed, who are getting heard worldwide. That gives other artists a chance. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I love putting the music together. It's like art —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes No one chooses to raise children alone. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I've been a vegetarian since I was 19. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes What opens my heart is when my son wakes me up in the morning, nudging me and saying, 'Mommy, mommy!' —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don't have a lot of things that give them joy from day to day. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes When you're performing, you're creating a moment. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs ingesting more and more fear with every act of hate on one another. They feel most comfortable in groups, less guilt to swallow. They are us. This is what we have become. Afraid to respect the individual. A single person within a circumstance can move one to change. To love herself. To evolve —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Following your heart also means eliminating the things that no longer evolve you. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes We literally just finished making this gown 20 minutes ago. I love it. It's my favorite color. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Im a hip-hopper, and its something you live and do. It makes me angry that were misrepresented, that were being killed every day by one another, by the government, by the food we eat, the choices we make. It makes me angry because it doesnt have to be that way and it is. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I'm more like an oven than a microwave, —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes When people are going on to the next plateau of whatever this thing is called life, I also want them to breathe easily, even if it's the last one they take here with us. I guess I'm the welcoming committee and ushering committee. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I grew up listening to old soul —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes We're all friends, inside the music and outside the music. I mean, we don't sound anything alike, we don't approach our music anything alike, but we come from the same genuine place. We want our music to be real and we don't want to compromise our art. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes It's weird, but if I decide to do an album, then the ideas start fitting themselves together. I consider myself a nice, slow burn. Plus, it's not a race. And I have a lot to share. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture 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 BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing. —Erykah BaduWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this