Because I love the woman and quote her often. Because Baduizms are pretty popular right now. Because I quoted her a few times in Women Who Ain’t to Curse When Communicating with God. And I figured we needed a place to inhale some Erykah whenever we felt like it while being able to continuously add to it. I dug around on Twitter, her albums and past interviews to drop these here jewels, starting with my most favorite. Enjoy:
- Write it down on real paper with a real pencil. And watch shit get real.
- Breathe in thru the nose as the belly fills up with air. Breathe out thru the mouth and miss with the bullshit.
- Look, I choose peace, but say…Don’t walk up on me wrong. This tea and incense and turn into Colt 45 and Newports if need be. Okay?
- Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learn. If your knowledge were your wealth, then it would be well earned.
- Be you. Make sure you’re saying something when you’re saying something. It’s important to sound like you, to feel like you, to be like you. Be you.
- If I want it, I create it.
- When niggas turn into gods, walls come tumbling down.
- Fucked up and all it will definitely lead you to the lesson your soul desires.
- Gotta walk before you levitate.
- Talk less. Perhaps just observe others while observing the self and it’s NEED to be ‘heard. Discriminate between which words are necessary.
- Personally, I don’t choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That’s between me and the Most High. You know, my Higher Self, the Creator.
- Watch your breathing. When it’s shallow and quick we could be in distress. When the breaths are long and further apart we are more at ease.
- I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it, in science, sympathetic vibrations.
- Feeling kinda hungry, cause my high is comin’ down. Don’t feed me yours ’cause your food does not endure.
- Everyone evolves at his/her own rate. It ain’t a race. Stay in your lane.
- The world is mine when I wake up. I don’t need nobody telling me the time.
- Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.
- I’m a nice slow burn.
- Good time to center and refocus. When we change our perspective, we change your circumstance. Breathe. Trust. Smile.
- New studies in medical science warns that at age 44, a new hormone releases in women called Idon’tgiveashitsrogen.
- Remembering is good if you don’t let it be the fear in you.
- So when I stumble off the path, I know my heart will guide me back.
- Who gave you permission to rearrange me? Certainly not me.
- 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.
- And I figured out that the reason I couldn’t get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.
What are your favorite Baduizms?