“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.” PeopleWayWantKindEndsHomePassingPassingsNursingEnd Of LifeNursing HomeHospicePassing OnDoulas Author:Erykah Badu
“I got a call from a mutual friend of ours, Charles King, who's also the executive producer. [Steven Caple Jr and I] had a conversation about it. I read it. We kind of finished each other's sentences when it came to the nuances and personality flaws that the character had, and some stereotypes and things we were trying to stay away from. We agreed on that as well. He just kind of allowed me to run rampant with the ideas. As we paced ourselves through, we developed Turquoise.” TryingWellsKindIdeasCharacterRunningPersonalityKingsConversationSentencesFinishedProducersExecutivesMutualFlawsStereotypeNuancePersonality FlawsTurquoise Author:Erykah Badu
“I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.” ThinkingWayWantKindArtSpeakToo MuchPiecesExcessClayCommonalityCarving Author:Erykah Badu
“What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.” KindPersonsHardPathTalentHard WorkProveStayingBe KindGood Person Author: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 nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.” PeopleThinkingWayWantFeelsTryingKindArtHurtCompromiseAquarius Author:Erykah Badu
“Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.” WayWantNeedsKindArtistPaintTherapyMold Author:Erykah Badu
“The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.” KindMusicianArrangements Author:Erykah Badu
“There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.” KindMemoriesMillionsMusicalBillionsAll KindsThemeAtoms Author:Erykah Badu
“I don't know... I've been doing it for 17 years now, so of course I've seen pictures and thought, "Oh my god, I wish I would've never worn that." Yeah, but I did! And it was probably because it was my favorite thing at the time - my clothes always have some kind of emotion attached to them.” KnowsYearsKindCoursesWishEmotionClothesYeahMy FavoriteWornFavorites Things Author:Erykah Badu
“I was the bohemian in my family, the "this is my favorite shoe and I don't care if it has tape around it" kind of person. The tape could become a fashion statement. Or a political statement.” IfsKindPersonsCarePoliticalFashionMy FamilyShoesMy FavoriteDon't CareStatementsI Don't CareTapeBohemianFashion Statement Author:Erykah Badu
“Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.” FeelsKindTypeMusic IsMedicineFeel GoodHopefullyExplanationAntidote Author:Erykah Badu
