“You can build a whole fucking world on the shit I don’t know. I used to want to appear like I knew everything, and now my favorite answer to give is “I don’t know.” I just love to say, “I don’t know.” It makes life a whole lot easier.”— Erykah Badu, vulture.comTagged: My aesthetic
“The thing about Trump is that he’s a bad guy to the point where it looks manufactured. Are we playing games here? He can’t really be that bad. I’m not a conspiracy theorist at all — I don’t give a shit about that stuff — but it looks like Trump’s just trying to spark division. It looks like a game.…”— Erykah Badu, vulture.comTagged: Trump, Media, News
“I see freedom for the slaves and the slave masters. For everybody.”— Erykah Badu, vulture.comTagged: Freedom, Redemption vs Revenge, My aesthetic
“I see freedom for the slaves and the slave masters. For everybody.”— Erykah Badu, vulture.comTagged: Freedom, Redemption vs Revenge, My aesthetic
“I see good in everybody. I saw something good in Hitler.”— Erykah Badu, vulture.comTagged: Extreme empathy
“If I’m not inspired to write, I don’t. Whether it’s me as a singer or a dancer or a writer or a painter or a filmmaker or on Instagram or a mixtape, everything I do is coming out of a real need. I think Joni Mitchell is the one who said that singing, laughing, and crying come up out of the same need…”— Erykah Badu, vulture.comTagged: Writing, How to be a writer, Joni Mitchell, Artists
“Somebody will call me and ask me to come to a march because such and such got shot. In that situation I want to know what really happened. I’m not going to jump up and go march just because I’m green and the person who got shot is green. The rush to get mad doesn’t make sense to me.”— Erykah Badu, vulture.comTagged: Identity Politics, Identity, Outrage, The Digital Age
“There aren’t rules for how we can or should think about something. We don’t have to believe everything we’re hearing. At least I don’t think we do. I’m glad I don’t watch this stuff.”— Erykah Badu, vulture.comTagged: Media, News
“I love Bill Cosby, and I love what he’s done for the world. But if he’s sick, why would I be angry with him?”— Erykah Badu, vulture.comTagged: Bill Cosby, Me Too, Redemption vs Revenge, Why people are such dicks
“You can’t roll a joint on the cover of a digital download.”— Erykah Badu, vulture.comTagged: Music, Weed, humor