- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what the situation you're in, if you're raised in a loving environment, that's the most important thing.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about a parallel-dimensions story is that you can literally never run out of plot.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not the things you don't know that trip you up. It's the things you think you know, but you don't. You fail to ask a certain question because you believe you know the answer. Separating your information from your assumptions can be very tricky business.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
As African-Americans, that's what's being played fast and loose with, our citizenship. When you have the Trayvon Martins and the Michael Browns being shot and killed, it's because, on a certain level, there is a kind of mutability in the understanding of citizenship around the black body.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do you keep the black female body present, and how do you own value for something that society won't give value to? It's a question I try to answer through my own life.
- Another Way
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- Nov 07, 2020