Brandi L. Bates Quotes
Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame.
The light of an early Summer afternoon as it slips toward dusk has so many good things wrapped up in it..
The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness...
Fruit falls when you shake the tree. You have to keep making things happen.
No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.
The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs.
Understand: I don't ever want to be equal to any other being. I always want to be greater...in all things, in all circumstances.
Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.
You will be perpetually unhappy if you continue to refuse to walk in your calling.
Never accept yourself as a finished product. Be a finished product when you die. As long as you have breath in your lungs, expand yourself.
Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you.
In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with.
Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.
His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea...
Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.
Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?
Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.
Whatever it is you want in this life, be it material things, a place you want to be, or an experience you want to have, you must first make it real in the realm of your consciousness.
A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.
The most empowering thing you can do though is to create innovative ways to bring in livable wages. That begins with a debt free lifestyle.
When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present.
Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything.
You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn’s spinning pulsars…
I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall…and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades.
All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.