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“You kill them with your success. Then they’ll have to kiss your motherfucking feet.”
― Tiffany Haddish, The Last Black Unicorn

“I became an “energy producer” at Bar Mitzvahs. Energy producer is what white suburban people call a “hype man.” I was basically the Flava Flav of Bar Mitzvahs.”
― Tiffany Haddish, The Last Black Unicorn

“When you are completely honest about yourself, there is very little people can say about you that’s going to have a negative impact.”
― Charlamagne Tha God, Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It

“If you don't have anything nice to say- say it anyway”
― Charlamagne Tha God, Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It

“Never stunt your own growth by dismissing something just because it doesn’t feel familiar.”
― Charlamagne Tha God, Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It

“Feel the fear. And, tell the truth to yourself.”
― Jenifer Lewis, The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir

“I’m just now getting myself together to start living, not just surviving; laughing and not pretending, learning and not running away from my problems. The process is painful.”
― Jenifer Lewis, The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir

“There’s no greater journey than the journey within.”
― Jenifer Lewis, The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir

“I can’t remember who said it, but there’s a great saying that goes, “Dumb should hurt.”
― Corey Taylor, You're Making Me Hate You: A Cantankerous Look at the Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left

“People have just as much capacity to be good as they do to be shit. It's a choice. People make choices. So they need to make better fucking choices.”
― Corey Taylor, You're Making Me Hate You: A Cantankerous Look at the Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left

“Something I eventually learned: Prince's top girlfriend was always in Minneapolis. When you came to Minneapolis, you were the girl on her way in. When you left Minneapolis, you were the girl on her way out.

This would have been a valuable piece of information for me to keep in my own hip pocket.”
― Mayte Garcia, The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

“Stage diving is not for sissies.”
― Mayte Garcia, The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

“That man hadn’t wanted to dance at first, and I made him, and then I booty popped him . . . and now he’s dead! I just felt like a booty assassin.”
― Tiffany Haddish, The Last Black Unicorn

“DJ Timbo: “Tiffany, your ass is not deadly.” Tiffany: “No, my ass is deadly. That man is dead.”
― Tiffany Haddish, The Last Black Unicorn

“An empress does not concern herself with the antics of fools”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“I remember the moment I realized I was free, looking in a mirror and saying, “I choose my motherfucking self.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“Look, you can’t take your pussy with you,” I said. “Use it. Enjoy it. Fuck, fuck, fuck, until you run out of dicks. Travel to other countries and have sex. Explore the full range of everything, and feel zero shame. Don’t let society’s narrow scope about what they think you should do with your vagina determine what you do with your vagina.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“My parents gave me the pep talk when I started school, the same speech all black parents give their kids: You're gonna have to be bigger, badder, better, just to be considered equal. You're gonna have to do twice as much work and you're not going to get any credit for your accomplishments or for overcoming adversity. Most black people grow accustomed to the fact that we have to excel just to be seen as existing, and this is a lesson passed down from generation to generation. You can either be Super Negro or the forgotten Negro.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“You’re gonna have to be bigger, badder, better, just to be considered equal. You’re gonna have to do twice as much work and you’re not going to get any credit.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“At this point, I think if you’re being silent, you’re making a choice and taking a side.”
― Michael Bennett, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

“Don’t feel guilty. Do something to make it better. Help us heal by standing—or sitting—alongside us.”
― Michael Bennett, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

“If you keep lookin' back, you gon' trip going forward.”
― Gucci Mane, The Autobiography of Gucci Mane

“There are some things in life you can never completely walk away from, as badly as you might want to.”
― Gucci Mane, The Autobiography of Gucci Mane

“As far back as I can remember, I really just wanted to get me some money.”
― Gucci Mane, The Autobiography of Gucci Mane

“I was also proud. Wow. We got under the skin of the president of the United States. I was grateful. Even though he disagreed with us, he turned it into a worldwide conversation. Maybe he wasn’t willing to have a discussion with us about what we were protesting and why it mattered. No beer summit for us. But his comments did allow for us to go global with the problems of racial inequality in this country.”
― Michael Bennett, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

“hate comes at you when you make any stand. It’s the price of trying to be heard. If that’s the case, and we accept it, then it’s a waste of emotion to react to the negativity. The hate, the rage that people throw at you only has power if you let it affect you.”
― Michael Bennett, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

“The largest culture shock was being Black in this atmosphere. We had white coaches, and they wanted the Black players to be the embodiment of who they were. They would tell us to wear our pants or shoes a certain way; this is what it meant to “be a man.” They thought our path to manhood was to be found in skinny jeans and a tucked-in shirt. (Although now Migos, getting “Bad and Boujee,” has all kinds of young players dressing like that by choice. Go figure.) But they never understood or tried to understand us. They projected their morals and thought processes onto young Black men without figuring out who we were. This struck me as a recipe for our continually being misunderstood, misguided, and misjudged, ingredients for disaster and rebellion, or at the very least for stress and self-destruction and the creation of the very PTSD that afflicts players when it’s all over.”
― Michael Bennett, Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

“Trump wonders why we can’t have more people coming from places like Norway? Why would they come? They live better there. Europeans come to America like you go to the circus to see the fucking animals. That’s why. You come to shop, take a picture where Brad Pitt slept, and to see the fucking animals. It’s a tour. You’re not coming to live here.”
― D.L. Hughley, How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People

“Cops don’t usually shoot people holding books, but you never know what might “look like a gun.”
― D.L. Hughley, How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People