The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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.
It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.
Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one.
As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.
Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.