DR > DR's Quotes

“Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit; everything, just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you’d have a little love left over for the next one.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Because the heart always tells on itself. Even when we think we hidin’ it.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Big don’t mean ugly, baby, and thin sho don’t mean pretty. If a person wanna be pretty, they gotta walk pretty and act pretty and talk pretty. Can’t nobody take pretty from you.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Don’t give people God’s power. Yeah, they have opinions and stuff, but they ain’t got no power to change your world unless you give it to ’em.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“God has a way of making sure you reach your destiny, regardless of what others do to you.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Potential without focus and full commitment bears no fruit.”
― Sadeqa Johnson, The House of Eve

“I was simply using my connections and resources to give you both what I knew you wanted most in the world. To start a family.” “Why didn’t you just tell me? Why go behind my back?” “Because I knew that if you knew it had been my idea you would have rejected it.”
― Sadeqa Johnson, The House of Eve

“Relationship goals? I never understood why women say they want a man just like their dad. When they don’t know what they’re asking for. You knew Everett as a father, not as a man. We have two very different views of one person.”
― Octavia Grant, Cutthroat

“you should never look at any couple as relationship goals just because you see a smile. If you watched me hard enough, you would’ve seen the Visine I dropped in my eyes to hide the redness. Smiling faces sometimes hide the most pain.”
― Octavia Grant, Cutthroat

“Never keep the constant company of anybody who doesn’t know as much as you or [is] as educated as you, and from whom you cannot learn something or reciprocate your learning, especially, if that person is illiterate or ignorant because constant association with such a person will unconsciously cause you to drift into the peculiar culture or ignorance of that person. Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something.”
― Marcus Garvey, Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy

“Continue always in the application of the things you desire educationally, culturally, or otherwise, and never give up until you reach the objective, and you can reach the objective if others have done so before you, proving by their doing it that it is possible. In your desire to accomplish greatness, you must first decide in your own mind in what direction you desire to seek that greatness, and when you have so decided in your own mind work unceasingly towards it. The particular thing that you may want should be before you all the time, and whatsoever it takes to get it or make it possible should be undertaken.”
― Marcus Garvey, Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy

“Age allowed me to understand that pain is unavoidable, and you’d live a very meaningless life trying to avoid it.”
― Millie Belizaire, fast

“I would have to talk to her about leaving the key outside. There were too many crazy and delusional people in the world.”
― Octavia Grant, Dear Vicky

“It isn’t really love at first sight until you’ve been with the person long enough for it to become love at first sight.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“It’s very simple, really. Take care of your physical being. Feed it what it needs, not what the conscience tells you it wants.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“The dark liner paired with the slightly pigmented gloss was”
― Grey Huffington, Unhand Me

“There is a difference between being put out and being put outdoors. If you are put out”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye: A Novel

“There is a difference between being put out and being put outdoors. If you are put out, you go somewhere else; if you are outdoors, there is no place to go. The distinction was subtle but final.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye: A Novel

“I take in the sight of the man who has come to stand beside the female detective. He looks like he hasn’t slept in a while”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“Why is your ex-wife here”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“Youth fools us into thinking there are infinite paths to choose from in life; maturity tricks us into thinking there is only one.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“Parents spend their youth trying to understand their children; children spend their adulthood trying to understand their parents.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“The danger of being misled is more than ignorance; it’s political and social vulnerability.”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“The danger of being misled is more than ignorance; it’s political and social vulnerability. A society untethered from truth can be easily controlled”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“For many Black Americans”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“I’m not a man who’s ever feared pale foolishness dressed up as power.”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“How could you?” she choked out. “You lied. You said we was safe. You said we was family!”
― Clay Cane, Burn Down Master's House

“His body swayed from side to side as the woman in front of him shook her ass faster than the beat. Czar wanted to tell her to chill because her movements mirrored a person having a seizure and it was getting a little scary.”
― Ladii Nesha, Losin' Control

“You got something against big girls?” “Nah,” Czar denied. “I have something against hoes who wear they kid’s clothes. Go take that shit off before you get a yeast infection.”
― Ladii Nesha, Losin' Control

“So you wanna tell me why you’re always sad?” “No”
― Ladii Nesha, Losin' Control