In this post, you’ll find the collected quotes and .gifs made during the month of May 2018. I hope you enjoy what is in the post. Best Of “Rejection is God’s protection, that will provide you redirection” — Charlamagne the God & Iyanla Vanzant (Breakfast Club) “You got to be willing to do it no…
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In this post, you’ll find the collected quotes and .gifs made during the month of May 2018. I hope you enjoy what is in the post.
Best Of
“Rejection is God’s protection, that will provide you redirection”
— Charlamagne the God & Iyanla Vanzant (Breakfast Club)
“You got to be willing to do it no matter what. If you have the desire, and the ability and faith, you’re gonna make it.”
— Iyanla Vanzant – Quoting Barry White (Breakfast Club)
“Expectations will steal the gifts that are sitting right there in front of you.”
— Red Table Talk: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Motherhood”
“Read things that don’t necessarily pertain to you.”
— Charlamagne the God (Breakfast Club – 5/11/2018)
“Never let a man’s only value in your life be something you can pay somebody to do.”
— Amanda Seales
I say “go on” and not “move on” because in some ways, we’ll never completely move on from what happened. […] And I don’t say “get back to normal” because life will never be normal again.
— Episode 13 “Bye”
You say you love me, but you’re always willing to believe the worst of me.
— Episode 11 “Bryce and Chloe”
[…] girls don’t just “get themselves” into bad situations. Guys make the situations bad.
— Episode 10 “Smile, Bitches”
I can let you go and still love you.
— Episode 8 “The Little Girl”
“When the house is on fire, do you discuss the fire or get out of the goddamn house?”
— Episode 3 “The Drunk Slut”
The things that come easily to us are not what define us. We find the edges by challenging ourselves.
— Episode 3 “Everyone is Soigné”
I’ve been burned so many times I don’t know where my scars end and my body begins.
— Fahrenheit 451
“[…] Everybody knows the secret now that when a woman sleeps with a man right away, it’s not because we don’t respect ourselves, it’s because we don’t respect you.”
— Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife
“Do you want to stay married or do you just not want another divorce?”
— Black Love: Season 2/ Episode 3 “Accountability”
I don’t even remember how I got here or who I used to be.
— The Tale
Being a victim is also comfortable for everybody else. Because when you take accountability for yourself and your own healing, a lot of people lose a bit of control. It’s easier to control a victim than it is to control a healed, evolved person.
— “EP 4: Girls Trippin’” Red Table Talk (Gabrielle Union)
I say no! And no used to be so terrifying because no means a boundary and if you put up a boundary, maybe people won’t come back.
— “EP 4: Girls Trippin’” Red Table Talk (Gabrielle Union)
Don’t lead with the fear of what might be, lead with the strength of who you are.
— Queen Sugar: Season 3/ Episode 1 “A Rock, A River, A Tree”
“For the first time in my life, I feel like I didn’t have to justify my presence.”
— Queen Sugar: Season 3/ Episode 2 “Of Their Sojourn Here”
“I will not be sidelined, sidetracked, or sidestepped. Or put in a damn corner and told to wait my turn. Not another day.”
— Queen Sugar: Season 3/ Episode 2 “Of Their Sojourn Here”
The Rest
“Black girl magic is hard work.”
— Queen Sugar: Season 3/ Episode 2 “Of Their Sojourn Here”
That’s where you were then, thank god you someplace else now.
— “EP 4: Girls Trippin’” Red Table Talk (Jada Pinkett-Smith)
It’s hard, it’s painful, to recognize you are the common denominator for the vast majority of your problems.
— “EP 4: Girls Trippin’” Red Table Talk (Gabrielle Union)
You have to mourn that death of who you thought you were.
— “EP 4: Girls Trippin’” Red Table Talk (Gabrielle Union)
You can’t own what you don’t understand.
— Picnic at Hanging Rock: Season 1/ Episode 3
Without guts, talent is wasted.
— The Tale
I only remember them. Why can’t I remember myself?
— The Tale
“Nothing speaks louder than silence.”
— Black Love: Season 2/ Episode 3 “Accountability”
Life cannot merely be preserved. It must be lived.
— Humans: Season 3/ Episode 2
“Here’s the thing, just because you became a parent, doesn’t mean you grew up.”
— Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife
[…] it’s impossible for me to do anything without investing in it.
— Episode 2 “Now Your Tongue Is Coded”
Self-Harm makes the pain more tangible, it’s actually visible, something you can see and put your finger on and it becomes real.
— Episode 2 “Surviving Loss”
Pain motivates you, pain is a motivating factor for you to make a change in your life to do something different.
— Episode 2 “Surviving Loss”
What I need to keep doing is training my heart and my mind to accept and move with loss.
— Episode 2 “Surviving Loss”
We’re not the only killers, we’re just the ones being reminded of it.
— The Cured
I had to learn that it was okay to let things go and I wasn’t letting people go.
— Episode 2 “Getting Down The Aisle”
“It’s like I have all of these feelings, and I can’t control them. Like I’m a visitor in my own mind.”
— Episode 3 “The Drunk Slut”
“The truth doesn’t always make things right.”life
— Episode 3 “The Drunk Slut”
I want to close a door I can never go back through.
— Episode 7 “The Third Polaroid”
You gotta handle the lows if you wanna chase the highs.
— Episode 7 “The Third Polaroid”
A soul in need needs a way to express it. Silence is never the answer. But when there’s so much going on inside you, society expects us to stay silent.
— Episode 5 “The Chalk Machine”
[…] you can run as far as you want, you will never get away from who you are.
— Episode 9 “The Missing Page”
[…] are you right with you? Are you at peace in your own heart?
— Episode 9 “The Missing Page”
[…] you need to let go of your past wrongs and figure out what can you do right?
— Episode 10 “Smile, Bitches”
I know that hurt won’t ever go away, but there will come a day when I don’t feel it every minute. And the anger won’t be so hot, and the other feelings will fade, and I’ll be left with only love.
— Episode 13 “Bye”
I think you’re used to people chasing you and you’re used to getting away.
— Episode 13 “Bye”
No matter how many reasons there might be ‘why,’ there are always more ‘why not.’
— Episode 13 “Bye”
“It’s only dumb if you fail.”
— Charlamagne the God (Breakfast Club – 5/11/2018)
“I’m not safe, I’m scared.”
— Tully
“‘I’m sorry but,’ is a meaningless sentence.”
— Sweetbitter: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Salt”
“You’ve gotten by on your charm for so long that you haven’t developed a character.”
— Sweetbitter: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Salt”
My experiences don’t define me [but] they certainly shape me.
— Diane Guerrero
“Because I did not understand marriage, I did not understand divorce.”
— Red Table Talk: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Motherhood”
So the world isn’t acting the way you thought it would. But we don’t see things the way they are, we see them the way we are.
— “Chapter 1” Dear White People
I’m a good person who doesn’t pose a threat, but they see me as one, and that is a threat to me.
— “Chapter 2” Dear White People
I’m always weird. It’s not really situation-dependent.
— “Chapter 3” Dear White People
It’s like the gay First Commandment. “Do unto others as has been done unto you.”
— “Chapter 3” Dear White People
You can’t be neutral on a moving train.
— “Chapter 4” Dear White People
Having a choice doesn’t make that choice easier to make.
— “Chapter 4” Dear White People
[The] only thing they love more than saying they gave one of us a chance is seeing us squander it.
— “Chapter 5” Dear White People
Free speech is more important than its content.
— “Chapter 7” Dear White People
The truth is often elusive.
— “Chapter 8” Dear White People
[the] system [is] not some distant, separate thing. It is literally regular people making decisions. Some decide to enable it and others don’t.
— “Chapter 8” Dear White People
It’s easier to fight an enemy you can see.
— “Chapter 8” Dear White People
Is this a movement or a primal scream?
— “Chapter 8” Dear White People
If it all seems very confusing to you, you’re probably just seeing it clearly.
— “Chapter 9” Dear White People
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