Erykah Badu Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• No one chooses to raise children alone.

  Erykah Badu

  Children, Raises

• I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art, and computer science; things that I would have never had the opportunity to even meet had it not been for those people taking time out of their schedules, helping us as children to travel all over the world while sitting in a gymnasium. That's what I did before I was a musician, before I was a recording artist, I was a teacher and a community leader.

  Erykah Badu

  Teacher, Art, Children

• My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child. She told me that, "I was the best," and it helped me so much.

  Erykah Badu

  Mother, Children, Powerful

• My fifth mother is Mother Nature - the things I had to learn on my own, the understanding I had to come to and still have to come to as a young woman, as a responsible mother, a responsible granddaughter and child. She teaches me willpower, honesty, and the things we need to heal ourselves from moment to moment.

  Erykah Badu

  Mother, Children, Honesty

• I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.

  Erykah Badu

  Children, Philosophy, Two

  Interview with Evelyn Mcdonnell, www.interviewmagazine.com.

• Because you're responsible for [children]. You are there to protect them, not possess them. I tell them, "Watch me and you might learn something."

  Erykah Badu

  Children, Watches, Might

• I really enjoy being the child's 'welcoming committee' and to help someone usher his or her spirit into the world in a very peaceful way is very effortless to me.

  Erykah Badu

  Children, Peaceful, World

  "Erykah Badu Unleashes Her 'Wild Rabbit'". "Ebony" Interview, www.ebony.com. July 13, 2012.

• All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.

  Erykah Badu

  Children, Artist, Littles

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

• Through [my children] patience, they're showing me how much they support what's going on, because I'm having to do a lot of work right now.

  Erykah Badu

  Children, Support, My Children

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I have an apartment in Brooklyn - I guess I call it my shrine. I go there to create and recoup, or hibernate sometimes, but my home is in Dallas where I live with my children.

  Erykah Badu

  Children, Home, Dallas

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