235 Quotes by Erykah Badu

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

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

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.

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.

Better think while it's still legal.

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

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.

I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.

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