#i

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

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

— Erykah Badu

#energy #feelings #money #motivated #music

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#came #doing #gift #good #good person

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence. ↗

— Joan Baez

#flop #nonviolence #only #violence

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

— Erykah Badu

#catalog #entire #i #like #song

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

— Erykah Badu

#get #i #satisfied #school #tv

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#neighbor #next-door #next-door neighbor #real #talk

I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#celebrity #entertainer #fond #i #i love

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

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#artist #clock #going #i #master