“Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness.” PeopleThinkingWayMovingHip HopHipsHopsOpennessWay Of Thinking Author:Erykah Badu
“I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.” IfsLooksPersonsFeelingsHandsBeautifulMovingSoundAbilityEmotionAudienceSingersHolidayGestures Author:Erykah Badu
“In music, it makes for a good platform to take time and really mold a piece the way I need to mold it. When it comes to fashion, I create a functional art that moves.” WayNeedsArtMovingPiecesFashionPlatformsTake TimeMold Author:Erykah Badu
“I just love expressing my joy and my mind through what I wear, or how I cook, or how I dance, or how I write or perform a song - how I move.” WritingMindMovingJoySongCooks Author:Erykah Badu
“My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director over at the gym where I grew up and learned about all those awesome things I told you about already. She was the one who taught me terms like "upstage" and "downstage," all those technical things about the art of what I do - how to breathe what I see, how to move. They were all her tactics, not anything learned or given to me through a theory, but rather by her natural abilities.” YearsArtMovingMotherNamesGivenTermNaturalAbilityTaughtTheoryGrewCoupleDirectorsGrew UpYears AgoTheaterBreatheGymFourthTacticsPassed AwayNatural AbilityGodmotherAwesome Things Author:Erykah Badu
“I have a daughter who's four, who's dainty and princess-esque. I still get to dress her like my little accessory. I think I have one more year to do that, then she's going to get her own ideas - so I better move quickly!” ThinkingYearsLittlesStillsIdeasMovingFourDaughterDressesPrincessAccessoriesDainty Author:Erykah Badu
“They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs, ingesting more and more fear with every act of hate on one another.” FeelsPersonsPlayMovingHateIndividualGroupsCircumstancesSafeComfortableGuiltEvolvePacksSingle Person Author:Erykah Badu
