Erykah Badu Quotes

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

Be you. Make sure you're saying something when you're saying something. It's important to sound like you, to feel like you, to be like you. Be you.

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

I'm only in competition with my last level.

I live in a queendom, ruled by a womb-iverse.

Following your heart also means eliminating the things that no longer evolve you.

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

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.

I'm a recovering undercover over-lover.

I create my own calm and I keep my balance, because I know that it's not really me, by myself... The Creator always gives me the energy.

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

Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.

My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.

Don't let anybody infiltrate your dream

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

Better think while it's still legal.

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.

So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.

I was born to make mistakes, I ain't scared to take the weight.

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

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.

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.

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

The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.

You don't have to believe everything you think.

That's the moment I learned that the more you believe in yourself, the stronger the vibration touches someone else, and things begin to happen the way you dreamed that they would.

It just works better for me to discriminate between which thoughts are mine and which come from elsewhere, before I even talk about them or express them - it helps to keep me focused on my path.

We lock ourselves into our own philosophies, our own religions, our own walks of life, and if we fail, we condemn ourselves and then we get sick.

Art is the absence of fear.

This pain to remain the same outweigh the pain to change... When you get tired enough is when you begin to want to sacrifice everything inside of you—the fear just leaves

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

A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.

I'm more like an oven than a microwave.

My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don't have nothing to do with your new friend

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.

I view my hair and clothes as functional art.

In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’

I don't know why, it's just what I feel inside, the thoughts that I sing about. It's just my truth. Sometimes my emotions can be mistaken for messages.

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

Poor is the new black.

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.

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.

I really can't say what inspires me the most, because I'm inspired by just about everything. My feelings and relationships, my family, Scooby-Doo. Opinion of my work. Everything. Not just one thing.

I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.

Honey isn't really that good for you.

If we were made in his image then call us by our names. Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same

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.

I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.

I think [ fashion philosophy] it's about your smile and your smell.

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