Collected Quotes: Amari Allah
Best of I don’t need to understand every last thing about you. We could be together for as long as you have lived thus far, and I still wouldn’t know everything. All I need to understand is my place in your life and in return let you understand your place in mine. — Amari Sali…
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Best of
I don’t need to understand every last thing about you. We could be together for as long as you have lived thus far, and I still wouldn’t know everything. All I need to understand is my place in your life and in return let you understand your place in mine.
— Amari Sali
Thought: The ideal is to find someone who makes you comfortable enough to be who you are but not stay where you are in life.
— Amari Sali
God gave man free will to see what he’d do with it. So why would you ever think praying and waiting would be all you needed to do for a blessing?
— Amari Sali
You know what freedom is? Laughing with teeth bared, mouth wide open, and letting your spirit be free. Ain’t no hiding in laughter. In them moments of joy, be it because of a joke or a burden lifted off of you, you free. May look a little funny, but that’s because being free sometimes look a bit unfamiliar.
— Amari Sali
People tell me I need to let things go and I have. I have through indifference.
— Amari Sali
There are two people in this world: Those who embrace their insanity and allow it to develop into genius and those who reject their insanity for normalcy.
— Amari Sali
I’d rather live comfortably, mentally in my mind than in misery being tortured with the thoughts and feelings of those surrounding me. For my body, I can change the position or placement of and can be repaired. But my mind, my mind will never forget and will never fully heal. It suppresses and tries to make the memory fade but the pain be it strong or faint will always be there.
— Jean – One of my characters
Anger isn’t a sign of strength, it is a sign of desperation. It only shows itself when you are physically or emotionally threatened.
— Amari Sali
At some point, hopefully before you’re 30, you have to start to realizing that living and progressing is no longer just an option, but obligatory task.
— Amari Sali
People come and go and I hold no one in high enough esteem to chase them.
— Amari Sali
I’m as selfish as a cat, but as loyal as a dog.
— Amari Sali
Though I may refine and remodel the building, the foundation is what it is.
— Amari Sali
TV is the gateway to a ignorant person’s misunderstanding.
— Amari Sali
We all are crazy, it’s just a matter of whether your crazy is destructive or creative.
— Amari Sali
I’m afraid of giving selflessly for I fear I will be left destitute in both time, money and possessions. Though I most worry about time since everything else can be replaced with time, but time itself.
— Amari Sali
I was always told when I was little that ‘No man can be an island’ and now I understand why. When you’re little, you’re untainted by others stepping foot on you and planting their baggage and waste. However, as time goes on you go from a undiscovered, pristine island into a garbage dump in the middle of the sea. So, essentially you’re not a island anymore.
— Amari Sali
“Blind love is true love for trust is everything. You cannot see love, so it must be felt, it must be heard and it cannot be shallow.”
— Amari Sali
You can only go so far back until you have to admit to yourself that though we are the sum of our past, that doesn’t mean we have no control over the present.
— Amari Sali
Is it my fault my intentions and your perceptions didn’t meet at the same crossroad?
— Amari Sali
When you say “Water under the bridge” I don’t think people realize that could easily mean that you’re avoiding a subject which still runs through your mind endlessly and constantly, but you keep avoiding facing it.
— Amari Sali
I’m African-American. I’m not someone who can claim a country, I must claim a continent, and to devalue myself even more, I can’t even really claim a continent, so instead I get assigned a color.
— Amari Sali
“Poetry: A prayer you don’t expect to be answered.”
— Amari Sali (Inspired by Wish I Was Here)
People are so worried about others breaking their heart, they don’t realize they are starving it.
— Amari Sali
Whenever you seek something, you’ll never notice that it is waiting right there before you.
— Amari Sali
“College may make my mind evolve, but it has devolved my sense of self further than high school ever did.”
Amari Sali
Empty sex is still some form of affection. You for the moments up to and during actually feel something from another person, and even lust can feel good if you’re the one they are lusting over; But, then the emptiness comes when you realize that is wasn’t you they wanted, but your body.
Amari Sali
As a writer, I feel this need to be open, vulnerable and expressive. Yet, as a person, I feel the need to be choosy with my words, only speak my complete truth to some, and even then be careful because there is the chance I could upset them for being politically incorrect or a bit too uncouth. It is a very weird combination.
- Amari Sali
Sometimes I do feel a bit down when I get an interview but not the position, but all things considered, I like to think of this scenario: Thousands of applicants applied to that job and they narrow it down to 12 or so. Just imagine how much arguing had to happen for you to be amongst that 12.
- Amari Sali
We all have some type of influence on each other’s life. Sometime it is short term where like a lightbulb someone says or does something which in a snap changes things, and then there are long term influences. Those people are the ones who do things for you which you never really appreciate while it is happening. And even if you do, you don’t in that moment understand the effect they have. Sometimes it is something small like listening to you when it seems like everyone just wants you to finish so they can talk; sometimes it is them helping you move when you were broke; giving you a place to stay when you nearly were homeless; or simply showing you the type of kindness you never thought you were deserving of, but have come to set as your standard. It is amazing what a person can do when they decide to be there, be it physically or in words. And I try my best on people’s birthday’s, though not every birthday, just to remind them what they mean to me and others. For while I will likely owe a debt to some of the major players in my life long pass when they transcend their bodies, at least I can say while they were here, healthy, and without it seeming like a last minute thing, they can know they truly matter. For sometimes in this world, as we go day to day, we can sometimes forget that. Especially when you’re young and think you haven’t done much. When in reality, sometimes you just being there, listening, helping someone laugh, it may not seem much to you, but it meant the world to someone else.
-Amari Sali
Money, in fact, can buy you happiness, but usually what you have to do to make money rarely will.
— Amari Sali
Sometimes I think it is better to have those moments in which you ask “Why the fuck did I do that?!” over pondering the many what ifs of the situation. For while you may regret acting on something, at least you got your answer. Albeit, said answer might of made you pensive to put yourself out there again, but someday you will appreciate you being bold. If just because it not only makes for a good story, but reminds you, when the (hypothetical) right one comes around, you are more than capable of speaking how you feel and dealing with the possibilities of rejection.
— Amari Sali
The beauty of getting sick is it disrupts your routine to the point of forcing you to slow down, if not stop, and take note of things in life. Making it so that rather than you being sick due to some germ or virus, it is because your body needs to cleanse itself in a way which unfortunately you aren’t doing voluntarily. So with every sneeze, cough, headache, mucus coming out of you, and the desire to sleep, your body is hoping you get the point that something in your life has to go, or change, for you to truly get better past the symptoms that it can inflict on you.
— Amari Sali (Inspired by Peace From Broken Pieces)
There is no point arguing with someone you don’t want to reconcile with. Why share your time and feelings if there is no future?
— Amari Sali
The Rest
Don’t get confused what you’re capable of vs. what you’re willing to do.
— Amari Sali
I’m not judging, I’m processing.
— Amari Sali
“Ask whether it’s worth it but don’t be no one’s bitch. At the end of the day no matter who is laying next to us, thinking about us or writing our check… All we have is our thoughts, our bodies and our dignity… Each worth more than anything for it defines who we are.” By Amari
I’m not judging anyone. My perceptions are purely based off of their words and actions and because they feel misunderstood they now want to play victim.
— Amari Sali
“It’s not that I mean to seem like a know it all, but I was taught to talk with confidence and conviction.”
— Amari Sali (3/15/2015)
“Only a fool is constantly wanted, normal people have to work hard to be interesting”
— Amari Sali
“Just because you may be a cog in a machine, don’t forget you also have the ability to become the technician/engineer and change how the machine works.”
— Amari Sali
As the mind says “The World Doesn’t Owe You Shit,” the heart replies “But Does That Mean I’m Not Deserving?”
— Amari Sali
I’ve had worked at so many jobs, for far too long, and now the mere idea of a career now seems like a fairy tale.
— Amari Sali
It is very strange to recognize the privileges you have, be it a roof over your head, car, and food in the fridge, and yet you’re unable to really claim this idea of being middle class.Yet, at the same time, you have this warped version of what poor is that you think you are too well off to be considered that as well.
— Amari Sali
There has always been this strange need to be self-sufficient, while knowing damn well not saying anything and trying to do it all by myself is only going to mean adding months, if not years, to reach various goals I have.
And yet I remain stubborn.
— Amari Sali
Self-Hatred and insecurities are never cured, but simply a scar underneath your clothes. Something as hidden as what is deemed “a private part” which only those who violate you or you are intimate with could ever find.
— Amari Sali
If you really want something you have to work at it, but where is that line where perseverance meets fighting for a lost cause?
— Amari Sali
My life is like water. Sometimes I’m high in the sky walking among angels, the next minute I’m falling apart and once I hit bottom I collect myself back together and rise up. Then there are the rare occasions I’m solid as a rock. I wish I was in that form more often.
— Amari Sali
Can’t say I regret any of the things I did, I just regret the results.
— Amari Sali
If you try to live vicariously through others too long, you’ll become nothing but an empty shell attached to an IV filled with other people’s happiness.
— Amari Sali
I was never a “rebel without a cause” I was someone unable, or unwilling, to make someone else comfortable at the expense of myself.
— Amari Sali
All men want angels no matter how committed they are to being sinners.
— Amari Sali
Your thoughts are sometimes the worst company you can ever have.
— Amari Sali
Listen to your soul and play the role it dictates and life will be easy. Stray off the path and you may feel a subtle wrath, or the fury of wasted potential.
— Amari Sali
Youth shows in those who have yet to live, yet to experience the great heights and falls that those who have been places and done some things know simply as cracks in the pavement.
— Amari Sali
What is partly wrong with this day and age is people seek freedom from suffering so they never learn from and become better people. They just buy or get prescribed a numbing agent and never allow themselves to evolve.
— Amari Sali
I am what I am and I find no point in labeling it for I am not made of concrete. I am more like water, forever changing.
— Amari Sali
It’s not that I’ve learned to accept things as they are, it’s just I’ve learned to expect the worst to happen.
— Amari Sali
To rely and to be relied upon, to exchange selfish affection; that’s family.
— Amari Sali
I fill myself with food, because love has left me empty.
— Amari Sali
Family members are just like your friends. You meet them suddenly and learn you have a connection and in the end, some become more like enemies than friends.
— Amari Sali
The good thing about pencils is you can erase what you write; the bad thing about pencils is someone can replace your name in pen.
— Amari Sali
I am but a soldier here to help those prosper in life the best I can.
— Amari Sali
The devil is in the details, but angels are seen in the mask.
— Amari Sali
My mind is too clouded by my wants to get what I need.
— Amari Sali
When you start to write for commercial reasons than simply wanting to write, there is no difference between this and loving someone purely out of loyalty and convenience over passion and admiration.
— Amari Sali
The best test to see if a man is truly not homophobic isn’t to ask him if he supports gay marriage, but how would he feel about having a gay son. Believe me, such often doesn’t lead to the same answer.“
— Amari Sali
“Everyone lives, and is quite used to, living behind a mask so don’t look at someone as if they are hideous when they decide to show you their true face.”
— Amari Sali
Be enlightened enough to not give a damn about the general populations’ thoughts and opinions. Your ears should only be open to specific individuals who you recognize aren’t speaking the same words of the general populace, but their own.
— Amari Sali
The things I want I can never have, and the stuff I have no need for, I have plenty of.
— Amari Sali
In truth, it rarely gets better, you just learn how to cope. You learn how to recognize people and situations which may be triggering, and you learn how to deal with said people and situations when they can’t be avoided.
— Amari Sali
My preferences are my wants, often based off some superficial desire, but my needs? If they fit my needs then it isn’t even a matter of compromising. I may prefer, for example, someone who knows how to paint, draw, dance, write stories, make films and etc, but those are wants. The essential need is someone who values creativity, appreciate the beauty in someone’s creative effort, and doesn’t just write off the experience.
— Amari Sali
Be careful when you invest time and effort into a job, or person, that won’t match your passion.
— Amari Sali
