Miss Me With That Quotes

“Don't try to be someone you're not at the beginning of a relationship. Know who you are, accept and love yourself unconditionally -”
― Rachel Lindsay, Miss Me With That: Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits and a Few Hard Truths

“Instead of imposing narrow and arbitrary definitions of Blackness on one another and alienating those who do not measure up, create spaces that allow people to be Black in their own way so they can contribute to our collective advancement.”
― Rachel Lindsay, Miss Me With That: Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits and a Few Hard Truths

“To everything else, I say, Miss me with that.”
― Rachel Lindsay, Miss Me With That: Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits and a Few Hard Truths

“I liked Bryan so much, he frightened me. Things between us were too easy, and you know I’m not used to easy. When it comes to men, I was accustomed to struggle. I was used to ambivalence, confusion, and discord.”
― Rachel Lindsay, Miss Me with That: Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits, and a Few Hard Truths

“One of the hardest yet most powerful things we can do for ourselves is overcome the assumption that everything worth having in life requires a struggle. Instead find the courage to ask yourself if what you previously thought to be Plan A, with all its friction and angst, should ever have been an option at all.”
― Rachel Lindsay, Miss Me with That: Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits, and a Few Hard Truths

“I so wanted Eric to be the first Black Bachelor, but I should have known the franchise was never going to choose him. Not only did he fail to check enough of their boxes, he was too Black for their fragile fandom. The kind of Black man who talks with his hands, uses his outdoor voice inside when telling racists to keep his name out of their mouths, and just might fuck up your franchise by proposing to a Black woman.”
― Rachel Lindsay, Miss Me with That: Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits, and a Few Hard Truths

“There’s a difference between learning the lessons of a previous relationship and allowing those past experiences to catapult you toward the other extreme. Assess the rightness of a potential partner on his own terms and not just by comparing him to the ones before him—especially if they broke your heart. Girl, that’s like moving to the unbearable heat of Death Valley and saying “I can make this work” because you narrowly survived the South Pole.”
― Rachel Lindsay, Miss Me with That: Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits, and a Few Hard Truths

“If anything, as you read, I want you to think, “Damn, Rachel was a hot mess, but at least she was always willing to clean her shit up.”
― Rachel Lindsay, Miss Me with That: Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits, and a Few Hard Truths

“Checklists and plans are useful tools as long as we use them as guides and not rulebooks. As we journey through life, we are supposed to change and so should our goals.”
― Rachel Lindsay, Miss Me With That: Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits and a Few Hard Truths

“I'm not just a Strong Black Woman; I'm a Real Human Being with strengths and vulnerabilities, hopes and fears, standards and contradictions.”
― Rachel Lindsay, Miss Me With That: Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits and a Few Hard Truths

“Assess the rightness of a potential partner on his own terms and not just by comparing him to the ones before him - especially if they broke your heart.”
― Rachel Lindsay, Miss Me With That: Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits and a Few Hard Truths