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In this post you’ll find quotes and .gifs collected over the course of June 2018. I hope you enjoy the collection.
Best Of
It was like the universe was conspiring against us or fortifying us.
— Love Is: Season 1/ Episode 2 “First Date”
[…] the trial is a test, the struggle is a blessing.
— Love Is: Season 1/ Episode 2 “First Date”
“It’s never a bad decision to choose yourself.”
— Pose: Season 1/ Episode 4 “The Fever”
Strong doesn’t mean that nothing affects you, strong doesn’t mean that you are mean, strong doesn’t mean that you don’t have connections or you don’t share love or you don’t have emotional responses to things. All strong means is that you are not easily bent by outside forces. That’s what it means and you are not somebody who is swayed simply by the way the wind is blowing or by the way people are moving.
– “Side Effects of Being a Cancer.” Small Doses
Sensitivity is a house with a lot of windows. Weakness, is a house that has no beams holding it up – it’s just freestanding and if the wind blows the wrong way, it’s a wrap. Sensitive is like, you’re a geodesic dome. You’re sturdy, but you’re letting light in.
— “Side Effects of Being a Cancer.” Small Doses
“Your witness is my liberation.”
— Fruit Trilogy
“Rehearsal is getting ready for life, dancing is living it.”
— Pose: Season 1/ Episode 2 “Access”
“A victory is hollow if there’s no real competition.”
— Pose: Season 1/ Episode 2 “Access”
“I’m no one. I want what I’m supposed to want, I wear what I’m supposed to wear, and I work where I’m supposed to work. I stand for nothing. I’ve never fought in a war and I probably won’t ever have to, ‘cause the next one’s gonna kill us all. I can buy things I can’t afford, which means they’re never really mine. I don’t live. I don’t believe. I accumulate.”
— Pose: Season 1/ Episode 2 “Access”
“You clearly didn’t appreciate my presence, my absence shouldn’t be any different.”
— Pose: Season 1/ Episode 2 “Access”
There are two kinds of compliments to give a woman: The things she thinks about herself but needs confirmed, and the thing she doesn’t think anybody notices about her.
— Set It Up
You like because, and you love despite.
— Set It Up
You’re not hard to get at all, you’re hard to earn.
— Set It Up
“Whoever got anywhere knowing their place?”
— Pose: Season 1/ Episode 3 “Giving and Receiving”
“There is a difference between inspiration and distraction.”
— Pose: Season 1/ Episode 3 “Giving and Receiving”
[In terms of the #MeToo movement] This is not a witchhunt, this is a fumigation.
—Terry Crews – The Breakfast Club (6/20/2018)
The Rest
“It didn’t come like a bullet, it came like poison.”
— Pose: Season 1/ Episode 3 “Giving and Receiving”
“Before I met you, everything was in Black and white and that kind of thinking don’t work in a gray world. You taught me to appreciate life and treasure every breath. You adjusted my focus.
— Pose: Season 1/ Episode 3 “Giving and Receiving”
“What is normal for you, in your natural state, do that.”
— Red Table Talk: Season 1/ Episode 7 “EJ & Cookie Johnson: Daring To Be Different”
“Time is not your friend. It’s coming for you, for all of us. It shows no mercy and it always wins, and then you’re gone, forgotten.”
— Pose: Season 1/ Episode 3 “Giving and Receiving”
“[…] we were buying things we actually loved, not things to show off.”
– Charlie (Page 315) | Crazy Rich Asians (Book)
“I want it regardless of my race, not because of it.”
— The Bold Type: Season 2/ Episode 2 “Rose Colored Glasses
“[…] when we sensationalize people for the purpose of getting more eyes on a story, that story gets lost.”
— The Bold Type: Season 2/ Episode 2 “Rose Colored Glasses
“Black folks ain’t got no time for writer’s block. Too much to say and not enough time to say it.”
— Queen Sugar: Season 3/ Episode 4 “No Haven in My Shadow”
“I’ve […] learned how to keep my dignity, even when I’m kneeling down for scraps under the table.”
— Pose: Season 1/ Episode 2 “Access”
“For an artist, greatness happens when you can take something organized and make it feel like it was improvised.”
— Pose: Season 1/ Episode 2 “Access”
“Technique is nothing if it doesn’t reveal some personal truth.”
— Pose: Season 1/ Episode 2 “Access”
Surviving and dreaming are two separate things.
— Queen Sugar: Season 3/ Episode 6 “Delicate and Strangely Made”
The realities of having it all means you got to figure out how to balance it all.
— Queen Sugar: Season 3/ Episode 6 “Delicate and Strangely Made”
Procrastinate now, panic later.
— Liza On Demand: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Pilot”
“Every black man wanna be the man that he dreams about bein’, no different than anybody else but society makes it so easy for us to compromise that. Offer us so little we take anything.”
— Love Is: Season 1/ Episode 2 “First Date”
“Happiness is not a story, misfortune is.”
— Us and Them (Hou Lai De Wo Men)
“If you thought back then I couldn’t endure the tough times with you, why would you assume the I could live the good life you wanted with you now?”
— Us and Them (Hou Lai De Wo Men)
“But what is scared to us? It’s like water to a fish. There’s no point in dreaming of a life without having to be scared.”
— Pose: Season 1/ Episode 4 “The Fever”
If all you’re doing is pointing out problems with no solution, then you’re a critic. You’re not a writer.
— Love Is: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Nuri and Yasir”
“She made the most of a life she was talked into.”
— Queen Sugar: Season 3/ Episode 5 “A Little Lower Than Angels”
“When things come so easy, you never think anything can go wrong.”
— Black Love: Season 2/ Episode 4 “Life After Baby”
Scars are maps of who you are.
— Vida: Season 1/ Episode 5
The method might be different but the cash smells just the same
— Pose: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Pilot”
“Your witness is my liberation.”
— Fruit Trilogy
“If you masturbate on a plane, do they charge you for hijacking?”
— The Bold Type: Season 2, Episode 1 “Feminist Army”
“The world’s not perfect. You know that. So, I don’t know why we expect our solutions to be.”
— Queen Sugar: Season 3, Episode 3 “Your Distant Destiny”
“The outside world of children’s lives have changed but not the inside.”
— Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
“It’s time to give yourself permission to want things and to have them.”
— Sweetbitter: Season 1/ Episode 6 “It’s Mine”
“I only set you right, you set things straight.”
— Vida: Season 1, Episode 6
“This isn’t an argument, this is you shitting on me.”
— A Kid Like Jake
“[…] the stuff of life is meant to be lived, not analyzed.”
— Red Table Talk: Season 1/ Episode 6 “Sex Talk! Personal Stories From Three Generations”
“I felt the wind in my face my whole life. Which means I know when it’s at my back.”
— Pose: Season 1/ Episode 2 “Access”
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