Brandi L. Bates > Quotes

“The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness...”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

“All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.”
― Brandi L. Bates

“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

“Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything.”
― Brandi L. Bates

“Unapologetically smitten with thunderstorms...the thought of rough sex beneath an acid washed moon and hydrated stars...”
― Brandi L. Bates, Soledad

“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, Remains To Be Seen

“Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

“You settle for less, you get less.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

“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, Soledad

“Successful people replace the words “wish”, “should” and “try” with “I will”.”
― Brandi L. Bates

“Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

“Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Red Flags

“Wind as old as Rome outside my window, inky fleece clouds against charcoal crushed velvet skies, fall feels soulful, like a LaBelle octave.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Soledad

“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, Moonshine For The Soul: A Path to Strength, Wisdom, Growth, Health & Happiness

“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

“Lick my finger so I can scan your table of contents- fuck the index- I yearn to ride your story line.”
― Brandi Bates

“All I could feel was love leaking in my soul and my heart seeping bits of heaven.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Amid the Cacophony of Cries

“Magic waited for me in the morning dew of this brand new day. And silence sang, so soft and low. It touched my sun dappled skin and kissed my parted lips.”
― Brandi Bates

“Your skin reminds me of everything beautiful I've ever loved...
how the moon gets jealous at how you mock her crescent figure with the shape of your mouth...
echo of unborn galaxies bounce forth through your vocal chords...”
― Brandi L. Bates

“Lowkey punchdrunk off this Sangria-sweet love and all it’s prodigious trappings…”
― Brandi L. Bates, Unknown Book 9429921

“Fruit falls when you shake the tree. You have to keep making things happen.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Soledad

“Be selective in your battles...”
― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen

“Raw Living: Picking blackberries, beneath late afternoon sun; a sunset reminiscent of watermelon sangria, as the scent of honeysuckle accosts me and the ducks waddle into the lake. Thanking Mama Nature for her abundance. Loving this candied-sweet southern life.”
― Brandi L. Bates

“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

“We've developed algorithms for orgasms, broken it down to a science, I spell out equations on the small of your back, your kisses, the most beautiful calculus I've ever studied. You do fractions and long handed division up my thighs, balance equations between my legs...even my sharp clefts and C-notes can't match our depths...”
― Brandi L. Bates, Unknown Book 9429921

“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

“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, Remains To Be Seen

“The light of an early Summer afternoon as it slips toward dusk has so many good things wrapped up in it..”
― Brandi L. Bates

“When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present.”
― Brandi Bates

“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