Top 100 Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes
#1. He was old enough to know you can't make people love you. But I suppose when you're wounded, logic ain't logical.
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#2. I told Chiquita if a man hadn't made a date with her for a Saturday night before Saturday night, he didn't want to be bothered with her on a Saturday night.
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#3. A woman can plan. A woman thinks she needs a man for nothing in this world but soon realizes she is wrong. The same way every black- owned business has to acquire goods from a white distributor, women have to do business with men, be it professional or personal, to achieve too many of our goals.
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#7. I read this book, it said a woman should think of her virginity like it's a window. And every time you sleep with a guy, it's like letting him put his fingerprints on your window. Staining your glass.
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#9. don't call me stupid without calling me stupid and think I'd bee too stupid to notice!
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#10. The gun was in Mrs. Jones's left hand. She put her right hand behind her, between my legs, then held on to my cock like it was a leash.
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#11. You must have a goal in life. We all should have goals. Or we are lost.
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#12. He says, "Your husband fucked my wife."
We look at each other and this time it's different. Now I know him.
"My husband didn't fuck your wife." My voice is soft. Not amorous, but the tone of a bewildered child. "They had a relationship, then came home and fucked us.
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#16. Soon-Bok Kim closed her eyes, said rapid prayers in castellano, beat the steering wheel, begged God to save her and her stupid husband, said they would become better Christians.
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#18. Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.
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#19. We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.
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#23. I can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!
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#24. She returned to consciousness only to find herself in an unescapable nightmare.
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#30. The heart define whom we are were attracted to. I was attracted to him, sexually, mentally and maybe even spiritually. And the heart decided for how long that inner madness would last.
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#34. People pray for rain, then complain about the flood. They pray for it to stop raining, then bitch about the drought.
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#35. Sex and love are not identical twins. Not fraternal. Not born at the same moment but still of the same womb.
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#38. We all give up part of ourselves to be with anyone. Relationships change our trajectories.
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#39. Hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!
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#42. And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.
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#43. For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation ... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.
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#47. But that's not the way love goes. You show the good, disguise the bad.
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#49. I mean, I am human, got feelings and desires, and might ultimately want the same thang, but can I get a moment of mental stimulation first?
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#50. Falling in love is like falling off a building - it doesn't hurt till the end.
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#53. I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home.
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#55. If I carried Catherine to the top of Mount Corcovado and placed her before the statue of Christ the Redeemer, Jesus would close his eyes and turn his back on her. If she touched his feet, the six million stone tiles that covered the religious figure would catch fire and fall like fiery rain,
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#56. Keep a woman broke, keep her under control. Give her just enough to get by. She won't starve to death, but she'll never be able to afford to leave. That's from the handbook on how to be a pimp.
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#59. Can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!
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#61. Wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!
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#62. Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.
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#63. And we all know when a sistuh gets mad, a sistuh gets athletically creative.
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#64. All I wanted was you. I tore down my wall for you. Now it's been rebuilt.
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#65. Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out.
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#66. The path to love wasn't a smooth road. Love would show up while you were busy with another love, leaving you to decide.
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#67. I heard you on the phone with her. I happened to be in your arms, and you happened to be inside of me, balls deep from what I remember, so I felt the difference, felt what you felt for her, heard how your voice changed when you talked to her.
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#68. As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.
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#70. A man knows if he loves a woman in three months, if not three days, but what he desires in three hours, if that is all he desires, he should never get from you in three hundred years.
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#71. That's what sex does: it starts relationships and it verifies the end of relationships.
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#72. A great relationship was when someone accepted your past, supported your present, and encouraged your future.
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#73. Hard to save anybody when you're locked up, when you're too busy trying to fight to save yourself. When you've made yourself a prisoner.
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#74. Honesty is like seeing a crackhead up close: it ain't that fucking attractive.
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#77. The only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!
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#78. The mouth that you love to feel sucking you. The mouth that makes your toes curl, the mouth that makes you ache and moan.
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#79. A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege and the favored religion to look like a golden child.
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#80. Love is for the soul and sex is for the body. Both cry out for satisfaction
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#82. The next thing I knew, I was falling. I dreamed I was being thrown into an open grave, but jerked awake and landed on a bed.
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#83. Lust is a master showman who disguises himself as love, and love is a mythical creature who keeps habitat with the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and other lies we have been fed.
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#84. I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.
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#85. Women were excited after sex, wired becasue in their minds the relationship was on beginning. Men went to sleep m the because for the orgasm had arrived and the relationship was done.
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#86. Love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!
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#87. I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.
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#88. We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.
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#89. If I was going to date anybody, I had to see how they were living first.
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#91. He thinks being black means having plenty of attitude; I think having plenty of knowledge is what black is all about;
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#92. Chiquita was dancing with a brother who was so old I'd bet he used to baby-sit God.
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#93. Marriage is hard work, and you have to show up in hard hat and boots every day of every year.
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#95. Desperation's heated breath singed my neck, its jagged teeth prepared to devour my flesh. Poverty growled too, waiting its turn, famished yet patient, a beast that dined on the bones of men.
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#96. Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.
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