FastSaying

He's taking control of his own image. And he's not put in a box in any way. He's getting a chance to represent himself.


Erykah Badu

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Every time hes supposed to be here, hes showed up,
BRENDA JONES [Senior Rob Hudson sustained his good form with a 3-under par 33 to earn medalist honors for the var...
ALEX ADAMS Hes the smartest dog Ive ever had,
PETER GOULD Hes doing better than what we thought.
JAMIE KING No one will remember the kick in the balls if hes bleeding everywhere...
NATHAN ELMO MELO Hes ready to go every morning. He runs right over to the cruiser,
PETER GOULD My brother went to New Orleans when he was 19, ... Hes 72 now.
BARBARA UPTON Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body, Jenny's like to cry; For she hes weet her petticoats In...
MISS SUSANNA BLAMIRE AND MISS CATHERINE GILPIN God is always on time, it may not be the time you are expecting, but hes on time. Just like he said ...
ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE (Dear kirk hammet, what kind of vegitarian are you? a lactose vegitarian, a ovum vegitarian, or a ve...
JAMES HETFIELD I'm a huge Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu fan, so working with those two in any capacity would be a...
ANDRA DAY A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Hes learned to never trust anyone with his heart. People lie, cheat, hurt, steal, and play. He cant ...
ZACH MOUNCE I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW My father is openly gay. He really loved my mother, but their marriage fell apart. When they separat...
BEN CURTIS I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All th...
LIANNE LA HAVAS I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and us...
BOZ SCAGGS Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. The Rom believe you should take the road that calls to you, and never turn back. Because you never k...
LISA KLEYPAS Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The ...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Men and women are what they make of themselves.
SETH ADAM SMITH They've put Lance in Pandora's Box. And he can't defend himself.
BILL STAPLETON When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness.
BARBARA KATZ ROTHMAN It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the...
DAISAKU IKEDA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.
ALAN LADD In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspen...
OCTAVIO PAZ A god who created man "after his own image", and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited t...
JOHANN MOST His plate is full and then some. He's not adverse to getting involved in any issue, but he sometimes...
GRAHAM TAYLOR As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about...
ERYKAH BADU How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS A Christian is the person who studies the life of Christ and carries His image in himself in order t...
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY A Christian is the person who studies the life of Christ and carries His image in himself in order t...
SUNDAY ADELAJA In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles
HELEN SCHUCMAN You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER There isn't an hour of my life without you in it. I mend the boats, test them and all the while the ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Is science fiction of today to be tomorrow's science fact, if we think of it the idea of the flip ph...
GARY F EVANS... Taking on too much of other people's drama is just a poor excuse for not taking ownership and contro...
JOSé N. HARRIS I don't know what we're doing here – you and me … I don't know what we are or what we can be, bu...
DIANNA HARDY A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box . . .
ANNE RICE When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box.
ANNE RICE God made us all in his own image, yet not all of us are equal.
DUSTIN H. MATHENY He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.
CARLO GOLDONI A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the pl...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Its a Story they tell in the border country, where Massachusetts joins Vermont and New Hampshire. Ye...
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life.
ALFRE WOODARD Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
SACHIN TENDULKAR You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others.
APURVA GAGLANI Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals...
CLAUDE M. BRISTOL Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals...
CLAUDE BRISTOL They started calling running plays for him and he started taking it upon himself to run. Before that...
BRIAN TOAL Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Man made God in his own image...
ECKHART TOLLE I believe he made the decisions taking full responsibility and with faith in his own way [of doing t...
HIDETSUGU ASANOI My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, franticall...
BOBBIE ANN MASON The idiom 'Larger than life image' does not mean a person to put own photo image larger than own or ...
ANUJ SOMANY Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, an...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You control your own destiny. Never let anyone put you in a box and say 'This is your space'; You ha...
MICHELLE GEANEY Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW You want to raise your child in such a way that you don%uFFFDt have to control him, so that he will ...
L. RON HUBBARD This instant is the only time there is.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I am never upset for the reason I think.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Teach only love for that is what you are.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only my condemnation injures me.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only your mind can produce fear.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face...
BIBLE I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and fore...
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and fore...
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can’t be any good!
SILVIA HARTMANN The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...

That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."

Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison....
KEITH R.A. DECANDIDO These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON This is the spot where I will lie
When life has had enough of me,
These are the grasses ...
SARA TEASDALE I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert....
LEV GROSSMAN Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.
GRATEFUL DEAD The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer
BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE Tea followers were among the earliest converts to the Christian faith. Takayama Ukon, a daimyo turne...
F. CALVIN PARKER Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA

More Erykah Badu

Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, &a...
ERYKAH BADU Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really ge...
ERYKAH BADU I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will g...
ERYKAH BADU I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.
ERYKAH BADU The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just wha...
ERYKAH BADU I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a sa...
ERYKAH BADU Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.
ERYKAH BADU Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or j...
ERYKAH BADU I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, a...
ERYKAH BADU I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like ...
ERYKAH BADU I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to ...
ERYKAH BADU I’m trying to decide
Which way to go
I think I made a wrong turn back there somewhere ERYKAH BADU I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, tha...
ERYKAH BADU I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, hel...
ERYKAH BADU And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because...
ERYKAH BADU Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are movi...
ERYKAH BADU I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.
ERYKAH BADU I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up....
ERYKAH BADU I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.
ERYKAH BADU I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody'...
ERYKAH BADU I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share w...
ERYKAH BADU I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC bec...
ERYKAH BADU Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing ab...
ERYKAH BADU I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. N...
ERYKAH BADU The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
ERYKAH BADU What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a ...
ERYKAH BADU Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding...
ERYKAH BADU As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about...
ERYKAH BADU I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
ERYKAH BADU I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.
ERYKAH BADU But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance ...
ERYKAH BADU I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where yo...
ERYKAH BADU Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to d...
ERYKAH BADU I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. ...
ERYKAH BADU What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming t...
ERYKAH BADU Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my bu...
ERYKAH BADU The Sugar Water Festival.
ERYKAH BADU Nah, I'm not ready to do that.
ERYKAH BADU We literally just finished making this gown 20 minutes ago. I love it. It's my favorite color.
ERYKAH BADU I think someone else told him, ... He didn't even know who I was. It made me feel a little proud. I ...
ERYKAH BADU We enjoy each other's company. It was just a really tribal meeting.
ERYKAH BADU It was a really good experience for all of us. We each used our platforms to make other statements b...
ERYKAH BADU I lived in Brooklyn for a couple of years. The community is very close-knit already. I remember it w...
ERYKAH BADU I was given a tremendous gift and a platform, and it is my responsibility to use my platform to do t...
ERYKAH BADU The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.
ERYKAH BADU It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this ...
ERYKAH BADU I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
ERYKAH BADU I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt no...
ERYKAH BADU I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or...
ERYKAH BADU I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person w...
ERYKAH BADU