Quotes from Brandi L. Bates

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.

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.

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.

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

All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.

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.

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.