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Erykah Badu Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“Plus, I'm 19 years sober. If you don't count the weed and the peyote and the crack.”
— Sister, What Men Want
Tagged: Sober, Crack, Weed, Drugs
“There aren’t rules for how we can or should think about something. We don’t have to believe everything we’re hearing. At least I don’t think we do. I’m glad I don’t watch this stuff.”
— Erykah Badu, In Conversation: Erykah Badu
Tagged: Media, News
“I love Bill Cosby, and I love what he’s done for the world. But if he’s sick, why would I be angry with him?”
— Erykah Badu, In Conversation: Erykah Badu
Tagged: Bill Cosby, Me Too, Redemption vs Revenge, Why people are such dicks
“I see freedom for the slaves and the slave masters. For everybody.”
— Erykah Badu, In Conversation: Erykah Badu
Tagged: Freedom, Redemption vs Revenge, My aesthetic
“You can build a whole fucking world on the shit I don’t know. I used to want to appear like I knew everything, and now my favorite answer to give is “I don’t know.” I just love to say, “I don’t know.” It makes life a whole lot easier.”
— Erykah Badu, In Conversation: Erykah Badu
Tagged: My aesthetic
“My favorite cartoon is The Flintstones. It’s the funniest thing to me. But when my children are sitting with me trying to watch it, the whole frequency is too slow for them. Everything has sped up and recalibrated; the children are vibrating faster.”
— Erykah Badu
Tagged: Children, The future, Vibrations
“You can’t roll a joint on the cover of a digital download.”
— Erykah Badu, In Conversation: Erykah Badu
Tagged: Music, Weed, humor
“Somebody will call me and ask me to come to a march because such and such got shot. In that situation I want to know what really happened. I’m not going to jump up and go march just because I’m green and the person who got shot is green. The rush to get mad doesn’t make sense to me.”
— Erykah Badu, In Conversation: Erykah Badu
Tagged: Identity Politics, Identity, Outrage, The Digital Age
“I see good in everybody. I saw something good in Hitler.”
— Erykah Badu, In Conversation: Erykah Badu
Tagged: Extreme empathy
“The thing about Trump is that he’s a bad guy to the point where it looks manufactured. Are we playing games here? He can’t really be that bad. I’m not a conspiracy theorist at all — I don’t give a shit about that stuff — but it looks like Trump’s just trying to spark division. It looks like a game. Why are we being toyed with?”
— Erykah Badu, In Conversation: Erykah Badu
Tagged: Trump, Media, News
“If I’m not inspired to write, I don’t. Whether it’s me as a singer or a dancer or a writer or a painter or a filmmaker or on Instagram or a mixtape, everything I do is coming out of a real need. I think Joni Mitchell is the one who said that singing, laughing, and crying come up out of the same need: to get stuff out. I just haven’t had anything to say. I can’t really force it. If I did, what I’d be saying wouldn’t be coming from an honest place. Or maybe I’ve said all the things I feel like saying.”
— Erykah Badu, In Conversation: Erykah Badu
Tagged: Writing, How to be a writer, Joni Mitchell, Artists
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