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love what you have, and you will have what you love. Happiness was a state of mind.
Usually when the decision is no longer yours to make…that’s the moment you realize what you really wanted.”
“Nothing hurt’s a man’s ego like being ignored.”
“Yo, you ever think about that whole theory…men being attracted to women like their mothers?”
Nothing’s permanent and nothing’s promised. But at the same time, nothing’s impossible. Make yo’ shit happen.”
“Don’t ever front on the nigga that’s looking out for you
To not understand him. Not understanding forces faith. The…choice to believe in something that is not before us. Not clear.”
“You wanna survive in his world?” She shrugged. “Make sure you have your own.”
“Things change. Love doesn’t always last forever.”
Pussy is mad powerful, yo.
“…A day comes when we stop seeing our parents as just our parents. It’ll be eye-opening, and it’ll be disappointing, but we stop seeing them as these like, superheroes…that know everything and always make the right decisions. One day, Ray, we see them for what they are. Human.”
Some decisions have nothing to do with you and everything to do with your family.
She was brave but afraid of change; self-reliant but valued family over her own passions; and was loyal, sometimes to a fault. A smile in the light, cry in the dark, keep everyone thriving around her type of woman.
