You have to have courage to look back and be honest about your own drama.
Estelle.
“John Legend is a cool guy. He likes to chill, is easy to talk to and hang out with. He's also inspiring on a musical level.”
“No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.”
“Sometimes I wake up in the morning and feel like going straight back to bed. But I still have to get up and work, and I still have to take advantage of the chances I've been given in life.”
“I always say, 'There's a difference between cooked food and McDonald's.' Your mom's homemade dinner - you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to mak...”
“Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I'm coming at soul from my own place.”
“My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.”
“There's a strength in that look, a wilfulness; one would almost call it defiance except that it is so good-humoured. It is the look a woman would wear - would have worn - if she asked a man, a stra...”
“If its reality you want, I suggest you look out the window.”
“Reality is how you look at it”
“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”
“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”
“It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.”
“I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. Its okay if you have to leave us. Its okay if you want to stop fighting.”
“I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her e...”