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Brandi L. Bates Quotes | Quotes said by Brandi L. Bates

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #1

    A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.


  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #2

    All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #3

    Although this man spoke pure fluent ghetto, she liked his spirit. She could tell he was attracted to her, and that he was being ever careful with his words.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #4

    Be selective in your battles...

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #5

    But believe it or not, I really do like to read. I don't think anyone can ever pull the wool over your eyes if you stay prayed up and read. Frederick Douglass said that no man can be a slave if he has knowledge.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #6

    can't even sleep through the night without you and those sun-dried ginger ale complected limbs crocheted into my thighs...

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #7

    David’s mouth dripped open slowly. He stood with his heels dug into my carpet, a dashed hope, a broken dream. No amount of money could top the priceless look that gathered on his face like an unmade bed. His eyebrows crumpled and furrowed like disheveled sheets. His lips curled into an acidic smirk. Confusion and shock collided in the cornea of his dilated pupils. He was a B.B. King song, personified. His entire body sang the blues.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #8

    Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #9

    Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #10

    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.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #11

    Everyone's life changes when they meet their Obi-Wan & their Yoda, or their Morpheus & their Oracle; those who help remove the veil.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #12

    Fruit falls when you shake the tree. You have to keep making things happen.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #13

    Give me Pablo Neruda, picnic beneath a full moon & iridescent stars, black olives, cherries, dark things, canoe on a river...that's romance.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #14

    His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea...

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #15

    I don't want to be around people who accept me as is, in my unrefined state of becoming. I consistently want people around me who push and encourage me to be my ultimate best, who bring out the inner diamonds. I want to be around those intellectual giants who extract the gold within me, those who force me to read, to attend classes, seminars, conferences, and who steep me in an environment of perpetual growth and upward mobility. Not trying to be funny, but I've learned that I simply cannot afford to invest too much time around mediocrity. It's contagious.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #16

    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.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #17

    I would tell my 14 year old self to never ever, ever put all of your money in one bank account. And love the ones who love you back. You're going to want to quit...DON'T! Oh, and get everything in writing.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #18

    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.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #19

    Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or death, success or failure. All transformation starts with what comes from our mouth.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #20

    Lowkey punchdrunk off this Sangria-sweet love and all it’s prodigious trappings…

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #21

    Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #22

    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.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #23

    No matter what the industry you choose to ultimately invest all your time and energy in, be sure you're the owner, founder, and CEO. Remember, if you don't own it, you can't control it nor can you depend on it.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #24

    No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #25

    On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of Atonement or Remembrance (NOT ONE), no thanks for 400+ years of free labor, forced servitude across the Trans-Atlantic, ass beatings, buying ourselves and families out of slavery, rape and plunder...but everyone else has monuments, special museums, and even movies. This is what America thinks of black people, so-called black president and all, who has been largely silent on this subject...we'll even celebrate Leprechauns, Easter Bunnies, and Secretary's Day before we acknowledge our history.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #26

    Pain speaks louder than words ever could. Like most things it serves as both messenger and a symbol.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #27

    Quality sells itself. No hype needed.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #28

    Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #29

    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.

  • Brandi L. Bates Quote #30

    Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.

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