Brandi L Bates Quotes

#1. So I watch my sadness, gleaming in all of its soft pastel glory. And I listen to the arguments against my sanity.

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#2. 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.

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#3. Wind as old as Rome outside my window, inky fleece clouds against charcoal crushed velvet skies, fall feels soulful, like a LaBelle octave.

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#4. Lowkey punchdrunk off this Sangria-sweet love and all it's prodigious trappings ...

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#5. Sometimes I think the Most High believes I can shoulder the weight of 1000 stars.

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#6. Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.

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#7. All things grow, flourish, die, and re-grow. Life and death are continuous and fluid. Like the Sun and the Moon which die and are reborn, so do the seasons and all living things.

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#8. Thighs made of hymns, I read 'em like I'm reading runes. Now tell me where my future lies ... your neck, can I Savion on it?

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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#12. Successful people replace the words "wish", "should" and "try" with "I will".

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#13. Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

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#14. His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea ...

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#15. You will be perpetually unhappy if you continue to refuse to walk in your calling.

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#16. Pain speaks louder than words ever could. Like most things it serves as both messenger and a symbol.

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#17. That night I wasn't reading your palm ... I was monogramming my fingerprints on the sidewalks of your lifeline.

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#18. Quality sells itself. No hype needed.

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#19. The sky is a tight gray sheet of Baroque prose pulled snug

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#20. Never accept yourself as a finished product. Be a finished product when you die. As long as you have breath in your lungs, expand yourself.

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#21. Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.

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#22. 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.

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#23. Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you.

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#24. When I'm drunk with feeling and nature is drinking from my lips and we reflect each other in our atmospheres, then my words come effortlessly and my fingers go into labor ... day or night.

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#25. 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.

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#26. Fruit falls when you shake the tree. You have to keep making things happen.

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#27. Give me Pablo Neruda, picnic beneath a full moon & iridescent stars, black olives, cherries, dark things, canoe on a river ... that's romance.

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#28. Unapologetically smitten with thunderstorms ... the thought of rough sex beneath an acid washed moon and hydrated stars ...

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#29. Lick my finger so I can scan your table of contents- fuck the index- I yearn to ride your story line.

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#30. 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.

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#31. 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 ...

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#32. Whatever it is you want in this life, be it material things, a place you want to be, or an experience you want to have, you must first make it real in the realm of your consciousness.

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#33. Like the Bermuda triangle, she swallowed her victims whole.

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#34. Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame.

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#35. I marveled over the cosmic metaphors in my life. Found that all I needed to see and all I needed to know; all I needed to understand could be found in a constellation shaped like the Big Dipper.

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#36. You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn's spinning pulsars ...

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#37. A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

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#38. Like caterpillars our metamorphosis begins with what comes from our mouth. Caterpillars spin silk cocoons from the mouth. We speak life or death, success or failure. All transformation starts with what comes from our mouth.

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#39. On my John Coltrane. In a sentimental mood.

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#40. With you in my hand I can travel across the universe in one verse and skip moons to the tunes of Miles or Coltrane.

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#41. All I could feel was love leaking in my soul and my heart seeping bits of heaven.

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#42. The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness ...

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#43. The most empowering thing you can do though is to create innovative ways to bring in livable wages. That begins with a debt free lifestyle.

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#44. Although this man spoke pure fluent ghetto, she liked his spirit. She could tell he was attracted to her, and that he was being ever careful with his words.

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#45. Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?

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#46. I would tell my 14 year old self to never ever, ever put all of your money in one bank account. And love the ones who love you back. You're going to want to quit ... DON'T! Oh, and get everything in writing.

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#47. Can't even sleep through the night without you and those sun-dried ginger ale complected limbs crocheted into my thighs ...

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#48. 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.

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#49. The light of an early Summer afternoon as it slips toward dusk has so many good things wrapped up in it..

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