Erykah Badu quote: "The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy."

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and us...
BOZ SCAGGS I'm a huge Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu fan, so working with those two in any capacity would be a...
ANDRA DAY When we see others cry it is difficult, not because of feeling their pain, but your own.
PAULA HELLER GARLAND I know I'm going to cry but it'll be tears of joy not sadness.
JACKIE CHAPMAN When all's said and done tears and laughter are much the same thing. After all what difference is th...
GEMIMAH S. COLLIWALD CORNILIA* *Dance your heart out... dance¨over rugged machines*over cynical over mud¨dance when the tears can...
LANA RADOVIC I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All th...
LIANNE LA HAVAS

Old soul cries through the tears of a newborn
MUNIA KHAN The only tears I want to shed is tears of joy....
OLASOT

Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, &a...
ERYKAH BADU

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really ge...
ERYKAH BADU

I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will g...
ERYKAH BADU

I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.
ERYKAH BADU

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just wha...
ERYKAH BADU

I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a sa...
ERYKAH BADU

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.
ERYKAH BADU

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or j...
ERYKAH BADU

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, a...
ERYKAH BADU

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like ...
ERYKAH BADU

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to ...
ERYKAH BADU

I’m trying to decide
Which way to go
I think I made a wrong turn back there somewhere ERYKAH BADU

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, tha...
ERYKAH BADU

I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, hel...
ERYKAH BADU

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because...
ERYKAH BADU

Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are movi...
ERYKAH BADU

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.
ERYKAH BADU

I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up....
ERYKAH BADU

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.
ERYKAH BADU

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody'...
ERYKAH BADU

I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share w...
ERYKAH BADU

I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC bec...
ERYKAH BADU

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing ab...
ERYKAH BADU

I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. N...
ERYKAH BADU

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
ERYKAH BADU

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a ...
ERYKAH BADU

Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding...
ERYKAH BADU

As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about...
ERYKAH BADU

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
ERYKAH BADU

I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.
ERYKAH BADU

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance ...
ERYKAH BADU

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where yo...
ERYKAH BADU

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to d...
ERYKAH BADU

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. ...
ERYKAH BADU

What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming t...
ERYKAH BADU

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my bu...
ERYKAH BADU

The Sugar Water Festival.
ERYKAH BADU

Nah, I'm not ready to do that.
ERYKAH BADU

We literally just finished making this gown 20 minutes ago. I love it. It's my favorite color.
ERYKAH BADU

I think someone else told him, ... He didn't even know who I was. It made me feel a little proud. I ...
ERYKAH BADU

He's taking control of his own image. And he's not put in a box in any way. He's getting a chance to...
ERYKAH BADU

We enjoy each other's company. It was just a really tribal meeting.
ERYKAH BADU

It was a really good experience for all of us. We each used our platforms to make other statements b...
ERYKAH BADU

I lived in Brooklyn for a couple of years. The community is very close-knit already. I remember it w...
ERYKAH BADU

I was given a tremendous gift and a platform, and it is my responsibility to use my platform to do t...
ERYKAH BADU

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this ...
ERYKAH BADU

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
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 no...
ERYKAH BADU

I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or...
ERYKAH BADU

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person w...
ERYKAH BADU The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.
THOMAS MALORY Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years la...
ERIN MERRYN I cry as the laughter inside me drowns
and descends
into the water
with the ghosts...
A.P. SWEET Crying makes problems seem longer, and laughing makes problems seem shorter. Therefore in life if yo...
MOFFAT MACHINGURA Life's irony;Atimes the wise may have to act foolish in other to maintain the status of being wise.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The wise is not the one that has amassed $1b fortune,but the one that ardently works with the belief...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The wise person is one who can take $1 & turn it to $10
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

The sea behind me has claimed a piece of your hearts and a lifetime of your tears. Something in your...
GEORGE PATAKI

If your tears have lost the ability to hide your pain... why shedding them?
MUNIA KHAN Not only the tears do cry...
THESULA GUYRUKA ILESINGHE It is finally complete. Four years ago in Sydney, I cried with sadness. Today I cry tears of joy. I'...
HICHAM EL GUERROUJ

Whenever I am sad and depressed; whenever I cry tears of pain or frustration I ask my little heart, ...
LATIKA TEOTIA I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim"
BRING ME THE HORIZON

The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still.
LORD BYRON

If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then sha...
SANTOSH KALWAR If you think back and replay your year, if it doesn't bring you tears either of joy or sadness, cons...
ALLY MCBEAL Money makes the wise more humble,but an opportunity for the fool to exhibit all his pride.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my ...
CAT STEVENS

Good, that's a job well done," Grishmak said cheerfully. "Am I the only one who's hungry?
STUART HILL If tears were painful, no one would cry.
BEN CAESAR

Sunny held Kit, and Violet held Klaus, and for a minute the four castaways did nothing but weep, let...
LEMONY SNICKET

But he knew instinctively what he suggested was impossible. She'd been through so much, and held her...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT Let the man cry, for there might be hidden treasure in his tears.
YAMIN RASHEED

Tears are not thorns.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I cry in the most joyful of moments. It's not tears of joy, either, it's the idea of knowing it won'...
KAYLA RAE

Don't lament over your lost misfortunes. Move on.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When it is true, love endures, regardless of what life may bring.
OLASOT

Sylvia possessed a deeply conditioned respect for authority. She wanted desperately to live up to th...
ELIZABETH WINDER If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.
ALFONSO THE WISE Tears of setbacks are sadder than tears of pain
MARIE MUHAMMAD

Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.
ANONYMOUS

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.
CHARLES DICKENS We do not cry forever. Much as we were when we were once born. We cry because we need to know and fe...
MAICHEE SUMMER I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Frank...
ANDRA DAY

Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone w...
KIRSTEN DUNST The tears of those who cry for others shine more than the diamonds.
RANGEYA RAGHAV

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO

The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many children, than she who, in her tea...
UNKNOWN

SACRIFICE OR SELFISHNESS -THE CRUCIAL CHOICE
HENNA SOHAIL "May love & laughter light your days and warm your heart & home. May good & faithful friends be your...
IRISH BLESSING

The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.

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