Erykah Badu quote: "Nah, I'm not ready to do that."

I'm a huge Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu fan, so working with those two in any capacity would be a...
ANDRA DAY I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and us...
BOZ SCAGGS I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All th...
LIANNE LA HAVAS

As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about...
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

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

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

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...
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 Nah, that's not even close to being it. That doesn't have anything to do with (anything), ... It's h...
BOBBY COX I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Frank...
ANDRA DAY Nah. If you're going to do that in this game you can't do that.
DAN EVANS Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Im okay Im okay now.
But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
GERARD WAY We do not have federated IM. We firmly believe you need a separate channel from any public IM system...
BOB SHIMP Nah, I'm not nervous,
JOEY GRAHAM

Nah, nah, nah. There's no rules. Show me the rule book.
LIAM GALLAGHER i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL Nah, not really. It was fun.
LEWIS JACKSON

Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Yeah, Badu, all of that peace that you
be talkin' about, we got to fight first. This is the st...
DEAD PREZ Something known can be mastered, something made can be pioneered
NAH

Im James Bond. Im Jason Bourne. Im Super-freaking-Mario come to life.
JOHN DAVID ANDERSON

Bottom line is, even if you see them coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for t...
JOSS WHEDON

Don't run away.
Im not running away. Im already gone.
-Lena and Ethan
KAMI GARCIA That is extremely hard to do. Did I say anything to him? Nah. What was I going to tell him, make the...
TRENT JOHNSON

We can play now… just do that and that little piece of kinky thoughts… few perverts add and you ...
DEYTH BANGER When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t...
GARY F EVANS...

Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY Im not your biggest girly girl.
MAGGIE SIFF

Im not a politician and my other habits are good. Ive no enemys to reward, nor friends to sponge. Bu...
ARTEMUS WARD

All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD All that I have done will be remembered when I am all said and done.
TRUMAINE M. PRESSLEY

Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD Im not looking for perfection, just perfect flaws.
KIERRA C.T. BANKS In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW They were not ready for me. They were not ready for me to do the show upstairs. Not yet.
ROY HORN

Wot prawce Selvytion nah?
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Nah, I don't answer hypothetical questions.
STEVE ALFORD Nah, he won't be back (for next year's exhibition). We didn't get him out last year; we couldn't get...
DEAN TREANOR

Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.
RICHIE NORTON The benefits of IM are undeniable for businesses, yet the security risks and challenges are paramoun...
CHRIS SHIPLEY They didn't do anything we hadn't seen. We are philosophically sound, but we're not physically ready...
AL ROBERTS They didn't do anything we hadn't seen, ... We are philosophically sound, but we're not physically r...
AL ROBERTS Never felt lyk im alone bcoz my soul always follows me dats wat make me feel im not alone & I"ll nev...
RAKSHAN BHANDARY

Thank god im not too cool for the safebelt.
KANYE WEST Im A Good Friend, But Im A Better Enemy.
DONALD C HALL Freiheit ist etwas Maßloses. Im Guten wie im Schlechten.
CARSTEN K. RATH

People say that sort of thing and I just think, nah,
ALISON GOLDFRAPP

They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?
JODI PICOULT I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, ...
RACHEL KELLER Just because one bad apple is rotten it shouldn't or doesn't mean that the rest of the crate is too....
GARY F EVANS... We've felt for sometime that IM is next big wave. If you claim to offer a total messaging solution, ...
CHRIS CHRISTIANSEN We were ready to play. It had nothing to do with not being ready. They just beat us.
ERIC KADOOKA Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO

Nah, I'm not ready to do that.

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