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In this post, you’ll find quotes and .gifs collected or made during the month of August 2019.
I’m running my business, and minding my business.
— Liza Koshy
I’ve never known a country so invested in protecting its abusers.
— Marianne Williamson (Quoting a Tweet She Read | Breakfast Club Interview)
Black Women OWN the Conversation
“Who am I good enough for?”
— Audience Member
“I can’t grow if you don’t show me who I am.”
— Kym Whitley
“You enter a space the way you want to be perceived.”
— Stacey Abrams
“There has not been what I am. Therefore, I am going to be what I am.”
— Stacey Abrams
Texturism is to hair as colorism is to skin.
— Interview Participant
I get that there’s a way that we should do certain things, but there should be no judgment when it’s done.
— Monica
A processed head is not the sign of a processed mind.
— Stacey Abrams
Our hair does not tell a story that we don’t want told.
— Stacey Abrams
We should not only have the right to choose, but we should have as many choices as we can imagine.
— Stacey Abrams
I walk with my head up because I have not a reason to walk with it down.
— Audience Member
I think I’m going to be a work in progress until the day I’m not progressing.
— Ryan Michelle Bathe
Babies don’t save marriages, they just prolong bad marriages.
— Audience Member
Instead of saying “What’s Wrong with me?” we [need to] begin to ask the question, “What happened to me and how do I begin to heal that?”
— California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
The environment dramatically changes the odds.
— California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
Any moment is an opportunity, and you are a living example of it.
— California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
When you are nurtured by others, and when you nurture yourself, when you do that self-care, that’s when we break the intergenerational cycle.
— California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
Many people think that if it doesn’t leave scars on you, it’s not damaging.
— California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
The shepherd uses the rod to guide the sheep, not to beat the sheep.
— Audience Member
We take a quick cop-out when we beat our children or whip them, because it’s easier to give them a five-minute whipping and you’re done. But if you take the time to spend with that child and explain to them and talk to them, they’ll be much better children.
— Audience Member
Self-care isn’t selfish.
— California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
“He wasn’t where I was from. He was worried where I was going.”
— David
Caring isn’t pretentious. Apathy is.
— Tess
I need to figure out who I am away from the people who expect me to be who I was.
— Myfanwy
The fun moments are just recycled, watered-down versions of things that have happened before.
— Howard
Own your choices.
— Manhattan
If they don’t grow strong enough to rebel, to reject you, to move away, then you’re not raising men and women. You’re creating parasites.
— Elektra
If you choose to be a mother, you choose to shape the world.
— Elektra
“You shouldn’t have to die to know what peace feels like.”
— Pray Tell
Your feelings are real, it don’t mean they’re always the truth.
— Deesha
Things don’t go away just because you ignore them.
— Aunt Vi
“You have to face your fears if you’re gonna be authentic.”
— Nova
“Listen, I don’t know what this is going to be, but I just wanted to let you know right now that I’m willing.”
— Terry Crews
“She was single, but she wasn’t available.”
— Mike and Egypt
“[Motherhood] That sinking feeling that, as you child is growing up, that you’re being broken up with, on a gradual but daily basis.”
— Gillian
“‘Mother’ is not just a noun, it’s a verb. It requires action.”
— Helen
“You taught me there is room in every story for a better ending.”
— Matt
You can only study something so long before you get to wondering if you can actually do it.
— Moses
You know, the secret of social media is that people always pretend to be happy about the things with which they are most insecure.
— Rashid
I feel like I’m always chasing […] and the faster I run, the further I am.
— Brooke
I f***ing hate being judged on my demographics.
— Sam
Soon, the unyielding manipulations of your best efforts by talentless overlords will form a callus over the joy and passion you once had for writing.
— A Person
Realistic is for the ordinary.
— Coco
The only way to win, is to outwork them.
— Penelope
I want equality, f*** tolerance.
— A Person
If you disagree […] because he’s wrong, that’s one thing. But if you’re just going to object because he’s right and you resent it, there’s the door.
— Moses
Sometimes advising means intervening, and sometimes it means staying out of the way.
— Moses
I don’t want someone to write for. I want something to write for.
— Brooke
Get community where you can.
— Michael
[…] sometimes the things you resist are just the things you need.
— Reggie
[…] you are surrounded by allies the minute you decide to be.
— Professor Jerry Skylar
[…] the First Amendment affords the press rights and privileges that don’t disappear because things may become inconvenient.
— Brooke
I was going to drink away a bad day, but now I’m going to celebrate a good one.
— D’unte
How can you miss someone you’ve barely even noticed?
— Rashid
If you ever loved anything, the world will make you angry.
— Sam
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