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.
All those other girls are cake…I’m Crème brûlée…Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.
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.
You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn’s spinning pulsars…
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.
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.
No matter what the industry you choose to ultimately invest all your time and energy in, be sure you’re the owner, founder, and CEO. Remember, if you don’t own it, you can’t control it nor can you depend on it.
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.
Unapologetically smitten with thunderstorms…the thought of rough sex beneath an acid washed moon and hydrated stars…
Lowkey punchdrunk off this Sangria-sweet love and all it’s prodigious trappings…
Give me Pablo Neruda, picnic beneath a full moon & iridescent stars, black olives, cherries, dark things, canoe on a river…that’s romance.
can’t even sleep through the night without you and those sun-dried ginger ale complected limbs crocheted into my thighs…
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?
A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.
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.
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.
Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?
Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.
His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea…
Most people don’t have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.
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.
Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you.
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.
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.
You will be perpetually unhappy if you continue to refuse to walk in your calling.
Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.
Understand: I don’t ever want to be equal to any other being. I always want to be greater…in all things, in all circumstances.
The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to ‘not lose’, as opposed to playing to win at all costs.
No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.
Everyone’s life changes when they meet their Obi-Wan & their Yoda, or their Morpheus & their Oracle; those who help remove the veil.
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.
Fruit falls when you shake the tree. You have to keep making things happen.
The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness…
The light of an early Summer afternoon as it slips toward dusk has so many good things wrapped up in it..