Erykah Badu quote: "The Sugar Water Festival."

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

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

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

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 I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Frank...
ANDRA DAY If you have to cut calories why not start with sugar water?
CARLOS CAMARGO

It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast.
JOHN HUSTON

The same tongue that tastes a cube of sugar when it is placed in a small cup of water and appreciate...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When life gives you lemons you're not always going to have sugar and water at hand.
AMANDA CASH Make up some sugar water. Ten percent sugar is about what Kool-Aid is. Taste it. See how much you li...
HILDEGARDE HEYMANN Health is like water, wealth is like sugar and manner is like a tea bag. Thus, manner determines eve...
DR SIVAKUMAR GOWDER We've had church and civic groups, like the Lion's Club, that have found the festival helpful either...
DUANE HART Yeah, Badu, all of that peace that you
be talkin' about, we got to fight first. This is the st...
DEAD PREZ

When life gives you lemons ask it for sugar and water too. Otherwise your final product would be som...
PRIYAVRAT GUPTA

Science has proven that sugar melts in water, so please don't walk in the rain, I don't want to lose...
ANONYMOUS The sugar in candy is a simple sugar that quickly increases the blood sugar levels before a rapid fa...
CATHERINE VITELLI

The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It sm...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN

Biology is greener and, at scale, should be incredibly cost-effective: The cost of goods sold should...
RYAN BETHENCOURT The National Folk Festival is a brand-new festival every year.
JULIA OLIN For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very...
WILHELM OSTWALD Saying Sugar-Sugar time and time again doesn't Sweetens Your Mouth, Reach for the Sugar and There Yo...
YUSAF There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides, and they are indigestible b...
CRESCENT DRAGONWAGON

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Sugar gave rise to the slave trade; now sugar has enslaved us.
JEFF O'CONNELL There's no more nutritional value in raw sugar than there is in white sugar or brown sugar.
CATHY NONAS Every single wagon going to Oregon had a tub of maple sugar in it. They didn't have bags of white su...
BILL CLARK The festival also shows that our novelists can be on par with other authors in the world. The intern...
JUSTINE HENZELL I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days...
MILOS FORMAN

Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.
STEPHEN KING That's how the festival started, as a student film festival, all about accurate and positive portray...
ETHAN VAN THILLO Water remains the best choice for hydration. Low-fat milk will also give you a great protein source,...
JULIE RAEDER SCHUMACHER I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC We accomplish two-in-one. We have a musical festival and a cultural festival.
RIK RICE The richness of this festival is equivalent in quality of almost any film festival of its type in th...
JASON LIFF Some people say you are going the wrong way,
when it's simply a way of your own.
________...
- ANGELINA JOLIE The first American Black Film Festival (originally called the Acapulco Black Film Festival, or ABFF,...
AAMBERAANG Deepavali/Diwali, the festival of lights, festival of celebrations, festival for children and their ...
DEVASKI If you look at a stream or river and close your eyes it will be amazing the flow of ideas that will ...
GARY F EVANS... This -- this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's vo...
LOUIS L'AMOUR It made me angry that people could simply kill other people, take what they wanted, and ignore the c...
CAMERON STRACHER The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER Sugar and caffeine play havoc with your blood sugar, so avoid tea and biscuits.
ANITA ELLIS Sugar daddy,,, your sugar is low,,, your love is growing... now, I must go.
NERISSA IRVING This is our festival and on this day we are all Indians. We celebrate the festival by maintaining th...
BRINDA KARAT

I love the outdoor festival feeling.
JOSHUA BELL SUGAR HAILS FROM THE MUD
MUCOR DEDALIV RALUI Sugar is the new tobacco.
CYNTHIA KENYON All of them are receiving IV fluids, fluids for sugar and salt and water, ... The baby born 13 days ...
LEONARD WEISMAN

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
GERMAINE GREER I like the atmosphere of the festival,
ANN CLARK

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed
GERMAINE GREER

The Sugar Water Festival.

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