N'Dia Rae > Quotes

“Seasons change. Though humans are creatures of habit, we can easily adapt if we allow our minds to be like water. The people who have lived there can live elsewhere and will be okay. It’s only when we hold onto the past that change becomes painful.”
― N'Dia Rae, Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Side Chicks II

“Men can love you and still want to fuck other bitches. Your job is to keep him so satisfied so that he is too caught up in you to sleep around.”
― N'Dia Rae, Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Side Chicks

“What does me being back really mean to her?”
― N'Dia Rae, Black Girl Gone: A Twisty Psychological Thriller

“We gotta get that hair done too.” She was referring to the wild freeform locs that have been growing since I was a little girl. Baba preferred my hair like this. Said that combs were a tool of white supremacy or something.”
― N'Dia Rae, Black Girl Gone: A Twisty Psychological Thriller

“Women with money aren’t allowed to feel sad, discontent, or depressed, for money answers all things.”
― N'Dia Rae, The Coldest Secret Ever: A Psychological Thriller

“buried my face between her thighs, inhaling her intoxicating scent. Her essence was my holy communion, her folds the altar at which I worshipped. With the reverence of a devout man, I swiped my tongue along her slit, savoring that first divine taste.”
― N'Dia Rae, Creed: A King Family Saga

“I’m done with him.” His lips tugged at the corner, just slightly, like that was the only answer he was willing to accept. “Good,” he said. “Good?” I arched a brow. He tilted his head slightly, his smirk deepening. “Yeah. Good. Means I don’t have to kill Takuna Matata.” I rolled my eyes, and laughed at him messing up Takuma’s name. “You are ridiculous,” I muttered.”
― N'Dia Rae, Creed: A King Family Saga

“He said meat was impure. That it… corrupted the body.” That it corrupted the body and the soul, drawing us further from the path of righteousness. Baba had been a follower of the Hebrew Israelites, a fringe religious sect that preached a twisted gospel of black supremacy and strict adherence to Old Testament laws. In his eyes, the world was a battleground between the chosen people and the wicked, and every aspect of life had to be carefully controlled to maintain purity. Food was no exception. He believed that consuming animal flesh tainted the temple of the body, making it unfit for divine inhabitation.”
― N'Dia Rae, Black Girl Gone: A Twisty Psychological Thriller

“Men are such strange creatures. Walking contradictions. They could say they want one thing but their hearts yearn for another.”
― N'Dia Rae, The Coldest Secret Ever: A Psychological Thriller

“If I quit, I’d be disappointing everyone around me. Everyone is expecting me to be successful but…" “But what do you want?” Dr. White asked. “To be free and at peace.” “Well, it’s time for you to start defining what that means for you.”
― N'Dia Rae, The Coldest Secret Ever: A Psychological Thriller

“I came up here with the sole intention of dismantling my sister’s life until she felt as low as I did.”
― N'Dia Rae, The Coldest Secret Ever: A Psychological Thriller

“She was just another little Black girl who went missing. Nobody cared then, and they don’t care now.”
― N'Dia Rae, Black Girl Gone: A Twisty Psychological Thriller