“If charity begins at home then revolution should begin from school”

“You got three kids, three deadbeat baby daddies. How in the hell are you going to be able to attend college while managing a broken home? her mother asked. A couple of her aunts and cousins asked that same question. Even a few fake ass friends dared to ask. But her grandmother did not. Nisey, her grandmother would call her, you got to make the most outta the sunshine even when it’s raining. Grandma, Denise remembered saying with a chuckle, there isn’t any sunshine when it rains.When the devil is beating his wife, there is, she would clap back. Grandma was the truth, a continuous lesson to be learned. And not once would she ever allow her Nisey to think her goals weren’t achievable. Grandma just wished her encouragement would lead her grandbaby into the arms of a good man. Ha! A good man? What did that even entail? God knew Denise had her fair share of so-called “good men.” Today’s good men were just as needy as most women, if not more so. And the ones who weren’t needy wanted to save you. She didn’t like that shit. She didn’t want that shit. What she wanted was a man who knew his role, not some grown-ass child who had less intelligence than her ten-year old son. She didn’t need another mouth to feed. She didn’t need another cheating-ass nigga with empty pockets and a small package. Love no longer existed. Not the way it had for her grandparents. Not even the way it had when she was in high school. Situationships, not relationships. Love was no longer good poetry. Today, love was nothing more than bad literature in a poorly written romance novel, sold at truck stops on Route 66, between don’t-want-a-nigga and don’t-need-a-nigga road.”

“Man will wait for anything as long as it takes for things that he desires and definitely sure about. Patience is what it is called as!”

“Наше, людське життя, всього лиш кілька сторінок у великій книзі життя. Початок, середина, кінець книги? Але як по кількох сторінках відгадати всю книгу, коли вона безкінечна й неповторна?”

“It shouldn’t matter what I say, but rather, how you feel—don’t listen to the words of people. Instead, listen to your heart. It doesn’t lie, and it is speaking just as loudly.”

“Forgive yourself for the lives that will be lost, but do not forget them. A good leader always recognizes that sacrifices must be made in order to win, but remembering or forgetting those who sacrificed themselves for your cause is what separates the tyrants from the benevolent.”

“My motivational goal for 2018: read more and do more abs-crunches and you’ll look fantastic by the end of the year!”

“The largest fish in the river grew to its size, not because of its strength, but because it learned not to bite a baited hook.”

“And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don’t have to just be a character, going whichever way the story says, it’s knowing that you could be the autor instead.”

“I don’t think anyone knows as much about what’s right for me as I do.”

“Some people like people who are into themselves because that is how they are. Being into faith or family calls for making a sacrifice and that is not easy.”

“Sometimes it’s not the times you decide to fight, but the times you decide to surrender—those are the decisions that can make all the difference. Those are the ones that can shape your story in history.”

“Sometimes the only way to find the answers, is not to travel far away, but to venture deeper within ourselves.”

“Among the difficult things to suppress in the mind is the absolute truths of life!”

“…our lack of sleep is a slow form of self-euthanasia…”