Quotes from L. Divine

simple love's hard to come by/ im just living my life, and i'm trying to be a lady.

It's a lot of real G's doing time/ Cause a groupie bit the truth and told a lie." —TUPAC

I'm the blues in your left thigh/ Trying to become the funk in your right." -LORENZ TATE/LOVE JONES SOUNDTRACK

Thank you Mama for the nine months you carried me through/…No one knows the pressure you bear a just only you." —SIZZLA

When it's that time of the month, try natural remedies to ease your discomfort. For example, drinking raspberry tea eases cramps, and chamomile tea relaxes you. Essential oils, herbal teas, and elevating your legs while lying down are time-proven solutions. A heating pad and sprinkling lavender oil around the room works wonders, too. Get plenty of rest and relax. As my grandmother would say to me, "This too shall pass," and it always does.

Don't jump in the water if you can't swim." —BOB MARLEY

I know my past ain't one you can easily get past/But that chapter is done" —JAY-Z

I hope you think carefully about the type of young woman you want to become. It starts now, and so far, so good

Niggaz start to mumble, they wanna rumble/ Mix em and cook em in a pot like gumbo." —N.W.A.

Light skin, dark skin, my Asian persuasion/ I got them all that's why these girls out here hatin'" —JANET JACKSON

when hell freezes over pigs fly and a cow jump over the moon amma like u

These are professional mamas, sisters, and girlfriends. In other words, these are real women with real strength and sensuality

Simple love's hard to come by/ I'm just living my life, and I'm trying to be a lady." —CHRISETTE MICHELE

Do yourself a favor and call yourself only good and delicious things, like I do all of my girls. Be sweet to God's child

When I finally do leave this world, my epitaph will read, Keke McCoy: Former Jezebel turned journalist for the unsung.

don't mistake my calm for forgiveness because there's none where you're concerned.

Don't sell yourself short, Jayd. You don't know what the Creator has in store for you.

They do more than simple dances at The Honey Spot: It's more like seductive theater

We seduce the prayer out of them. I never take advantage of that power, unlike some. We are their religion, and they know it

you're so blinded by the perfect vision of what you want that you can't appreciate the gift you have right in front of you.

There's no sense waiting in vain for one man when there are so many more to choose from

I'd rather work with women just like myself for the rest of my natural life than submit to an asshole like you any day.

A relationship ain't paradise and nobody should be getting played. It's not a game. It's life

We're not just strippers," Tiramisu continues. "We are talented, intelligent, righteous dancers working what we've got to get to where we want to be.