If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony.
Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African diaspora, people of this region, and throughout the south.
I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.
I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.
I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross.
Now if I don't meet you no more in this world, then I'll, I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late, don't be late, cause I'm a voodoo chile.
They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.
The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and society. Voodoo and magic was the religion and life of America's Negro.
A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.
I got a voodoo doll every time I pen a verse: Not only do they say they feel it, but they say it hurts.
I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room.
Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.
Fine, but I’m not ripping the head off a voodoo chicken or drinking anything disgusting. (Grace)
I don't know about voodoo, but I believe in destiny.
A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off.
A friend of mine is into Voodoo Acupuncture. You don't have to go. You'll just be walking down the street and. . . ooooohhhhhh, that's much better.
There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.
All voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.
