Brandi L. Bates Quotes
Top 38 wise famous quotes and sayings by Brandi L. Bates
Can't even sleep through the night without you and those sun-dried ginger ale complected limbs crocheted into my thighs ... 
The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness ... 
Successful people replace the words "wish", "should" and "try" with "I will". 
Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that. 
Lowkey punchdrunk off this Sangria-sweet love and all it's prodigious trappings ... 
Fruit falls when you shake the tree. You have to keep making things happen. 
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. 
A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before. 
Like the Bermuda triangle, she swallowed her victims whole. 
Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you. 
All I could feel was love leaking in my soul and my heart seeping bits of heaven. 
The light of an early Summer afternoon as it slips toward dusk has so many good things wrapped up in it.. 
Give me Pablo Neruda, picnic beneath a full moon & iridescent stars, black olives, cherries, dark things, canoe on a river ... that's romance. 
Lick my finger so I can scan your table of contents- fuck the index- I yearn to ride your story line. 
The sky is a tight gray sheet of Baroque prose pulled snug 
On my John Coltrane. In a sentimental mood. 
Sometimes I think the Most High believes I can shoulder the weight of 1000 stars. 
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. 
Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them. 
Unapologetically smitten with thunderstorms ... the thought of rough sex beneath an acid washed moon and hydrated stars ... 
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. 
That night I wasn't reading your palm ... I was monogramming my fingerprints on the sidewalks of your lifeline. 
Pain speaks louder than words ever could. Like most things it serves as both messenger and a symbol. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
So I watch my sadness, gleaming in all of its soft pastel glory. And I listen to the arguments against my sanity. 
With you in my hand I can travel across the universe in one verse and skip moons to the tunes of Miles or Coltrane. 
Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas? 
Wind as old as Rome outside my window, inky fleece clouds against charcoal crushed velvet skies, fall feels soulful, like a LaBelle octave. 
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.