#de

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#i #just #little #performing #play

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#citizens #control #dangerous #education #federal

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. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#america #black #born #cloud #harder

You cannot change what you are, only what you do. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#change #life #self-determination #change

I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#billie #billie holiday #comparison #creative #emotion

Woman absent is woman dead. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#dead #woman

Action is the antidote to despair. ↗

— Joan Baez

#antidote #despair

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#down #family #idea #interesting #interesting idea

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#clings #element #exaggeration #great #great virtues

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#hasty #human #human nature #leap #most