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Quotes From The Month Of August 2019

In this post, you’ll find quotes and .gifs collected or made during the month of August 2019.

ByAmari Allah Hours Posted onSeptember 1, 2019 2:19 PMOctober 9, 2019 8:53 AM Hours Updated onOctober 9, 2019 8:53 AM
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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


David Makes Man: Season 1

“He wasn’t where I was from. He was worried where I was going.”
— David


Sweetbitter: Season 2

Caring isn’t pretentious. Apathy is.
— Tess


The Rook: Season 1

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


Pose: Season 2

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


Queen Sugar: Season 4

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


Black Love: Season 3

“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


Otherhood

“[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


Dear White People: Season 3

Coco saying you know her.
Dean Fairbanks asking if he is being read.

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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Related Tags: Black Love: Season 3, Black Women OWN the Conversation, David Makes Man: Season 1, Dear White People: Season 3, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, Kym Whitley, Liza Koshy, Marianne Williamson, Pose: Season 2, Queen Sugar: Season 4, Ryan Michelle Bathe, Stacey Abrams, Sweetbitter: Season 2, The Rook: Season 1

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Amari is the founder and head writer of Wherever-I-Look.com and has been writing reviews since 2010, with a focus on dramas and comedies.

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