Hill Harper > Quotes

“You can't be free if the cost of being you is too high.”
― Hill Harper, The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place

“Money is simply a tool to give you choices.”
― Hill Harper, Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny

“Peaceful Warrior”
― Hill Harper

“The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, personal and family history, belief systems, and often political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of”
― Hill Harper, The Conversation: How Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships

“rejection is usually God’s protection.”
― Hill Harper, Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Destiny

“Now this might get me into trouble but I’m just going to write it. Many of my most jaded female friends want a man who has already “arrived” and there’s nothing wrong with that. However, I’ve noticed that if many of these women hold up a mirror to themselves, they would realize that they are still “works in progress,” as well.”
― Hill Harper, The Conversation: How Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships

“Honesty, trust, and friendship in a relationship are crucial, and no relationship can survive without them.”
― Hill Harper, The Conversation: How Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships

“We make irrational and often destructive choices because we have given money and its pursuit too much value.”
― Hill Harper, The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place

“We don’t have to allow stereotypical notions or past experiences to immediately alter our personal future.”
― Hill Harper, The Conversation: How Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships

“We are expecting less and demanding less, and those lower expectations are making us unfulfilled and taking us farther from each other.”
― Hill Harper, The Conversation: How Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships

“I don’t want to sound cliché or corny or anything, but Black men and women have always been pitted against each other.We’ve been made to believe so many lies about each other, and that’s why I think our loving each other, whether it’s expressed through friendship or marriage or both, is a revolutionary act. It means that we’re able to see and accept the truth in each other, and in ourselves.”
― Hill Harper, The Conversation: How Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships

“Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.”
― Hill Harper

“When you meet the right person, your perspective shifts and judgments just disappear.”
― Hill Harper, The Conversation: How Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships

“Love is an energy. You can feed it to people, and they, in turn, feed it to others, and eventually it comes back to nurture you.”
― Hill Harper, The Conversation: How Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships