“Are you crazy? The last thing you want to do is make a scene." "Well, I'm gonna make a movie if you don't show me some respect.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“To be able to shit on people before they get a chance to shit on you. That's power.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“Now I realized that me and him were just alike. We were both born to win. And, when we were not winning, it was OK 'cause we were busy planning to win.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“Drugs is a government game, Bilal. A way to rob us of our best black men, our army. Everyone who plays the game loses. Then they get you right back where we started, in slavery! Then they get to say "This time you did it to yourself." I won't play that game.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“So you know that TV shit ain't real.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“She asked me could I read and write. I told her, "Of course, and I can talk too.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“That's how I stay on top baby. i look at life from every position. I play from every side. you gotta know what each man on the board is thinking down to the littlest mutherfucker like the pawn”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“Drugs rob every person, man, woman, and child of their beauty. Drugs turn people into animals who can only respond to instincts. Drugs are so powerful they eradicate the God in both the taker and the giver.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“Only a complete asshole would keep repeating the same old mistakes and blaming it on something else. Hell, we have all had it hard. It may not seem like it,”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“Vendetta is the word, except it isn't strong enough.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“What would be a bigger spectacle, a female with one shoe on or a well-dressed female with no shoes? This is New York so I said fuck it.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“It’s funny how the same thing a man loves, is the same thing that he hates. What makes me stand out as a woman is that I have nonnegotiable principles, strength, and faith in my people. From the time that we shared you seemed to love that, admire it, even. Now you hate it because my ways have isolated you. The truth is, you’ve isolated yourself.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“Now y'all know it's to many of y'all. GS told me to bring up the baddest female in the house.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“We pay for every little choice we make. You traded everyone else’s life for yours. I traded my life for everyone else’s.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“Chemical warfare is the only way to describe what happens when cheap perfume, body splash, body spray, underarm deodorant, curl activator, hair spray, and pissy Pampers collide.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“If you’re deciding what you believe every day and every day you believe something else, you have nothing to look forward to but chaos.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“in the ancient African tradition women are the sacred key to life. They carry, then push all life into existence. They are a metaphor for wisdom. Midnight”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“When we hate ourselves we destroy our bodies with alcohol, drugs, casual sex, and a bunch of stuff. Then we look at ourselves and hate ourselves even more.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“Women want love, peace, unity, and shit like that. Men are tribal. I ain’t tryna save the world. I’m just tryna get my piece for my crew, that’s all. That’s all it’s about and that’s the most you can ask for. What you know about that?”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“But I wanted to warn her about certain things in life. Usually I’m not at a loss for words. But I didn’t feel good enough to tell her what I really thought. I knew what she would think: Winter, you’re just saying that ’cause you’re in jail. Winter, you’re just saying that because you’re old. Winter, you’re just saying that because you’re ugly. Winter, you’re just saying that because you’re jealous. So instead of saying what I had learned, what was on the tip of my tongue, I said nothing at all. Hell, I’m not into meddling in other people’s business. I definitely don’t be making no speeches. Fuck it. She’ll learn for herself. That’s just the way it is.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“Damn, is this bitch a crackhead vampire? She stays up all night. In the morning you're looking at her like, did you ever go to sleep?”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“Now I don't want to lie to you, there were some Blacks in the neighborhood, but they asses was so uptight I figured if I asked them a question they'd want me to pay for the answer.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“A man without study is a hostage to his own faults. In”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“At six-fifteen the sun snuck up and mugged the moon.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“But how do we get men and women before they are hunted like foxes and trapped like rats and treated like ants to understand the concept of unity, working, building, living together? It seems the Black National Anthem is If it’s broke, don’t fix it.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
“Hell, you can’t smell nobody’s breath through a camera. You almost can’t even see their pimples. So you know that TV shit ain’t real. Don’t run ahead of me. Let me take my time and tell my story.”
― Sister Souljah, quote from The Coldest Winter Ever
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“Steven’s words slush together as he gets to his feet. “Crossing this one off the bucket list.” Then he
unbuckles his belt and grabs the waist of his pants—yanking the suckers down to his ankles—tighty
whities and all.
Every guy in the car holds up his hands to try to block the spectacle. We groan and complain. “My
eyes! They burn!”
“Put the boa constrictor back in his cage, man.”
“This is not the ass I planned on seeing tonight.”
Our protests fall on deaf ears. Steven is a man on a mission. Wordlessly, he squats and shoves his lilywhite
ass out the window—mooning the gaggle of grannies in the car next to us.
I bet you thought this kind of stuff only happened in movies.
He grins while his ass blows in the wind for a good ninety seconds, ensuring optimal viewage. Then
he pulls his slacks up, turns around, and leans out the window, laughing. “Enjoying the full moon, ladies?”
Wow. Steven usually isn’t the type to visually assault the elderly.
Without warning, his crazy cackling is cut off. He’s silent for a beat, then I hear him choke out a single
strangled word.
“Grandma?”
Then he’s diving back into the limo, his face grayish, dazed, and totally sober. He stares at the floor.
“No way that just happened.”
Matthew and I look at each other hopefully, then we scramble to the window. Sure enough, in the
driver’s seat of that big old Town Car is none other than Loretta P. Reinhart. Mom to George; Grandma to
Steven.
What are the fucking odds, huh?
....
Matthew and I wave and smile and in fourth-grader-like, singsong harmony call out, “Hi, Mrs.
Reinhart.”
She shakes one wrinkled fist in our direction. Then her poofy-haired companion in the backseat flips
us the bird. I’m pretty sure it’s the funniest goddamn thing I’ve ever seen.
The two of us collapse back into our seats, laughing hysterically.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Tied
“Sometimes love is worth fighting for. And if you don’t fight for it, then it slips through your fingers.”
― Chanda Hahn, quote from Fable
“Some things in life are bad. They can really make you mad. Other things just make you swear and curse. When you’re chewing on life’s gristle, don’t grumble, give a whistle, and this’ll help things turn out for the best. And always look on the bright side of life…”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Home
“And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.”
― Philip Roth, quote from The Counterlife
“9. HUMAN RIGHTS [70:9.1] Nature confers no rights on man, only life and a world in which to live it. Nature does not even confer the right to live, as might be deduced by considering what would likely happen if an unarmed man met a hungry tiger face to face in the primitive forest. Society's prime gift to man is security. [70:9.2] Gradually society asserted its rights and, at the present time, they are Assurance of food supply. Military defense—security through preparedness. Internal peace preservation—prevention of personal violence and social disorder. Sex control—marriage, the family institution. Property—the right to own. Fostering of individual and group competition. Provision for educating and training youth. Promotion of trade and commerce—industrial development. Improvement of labor conditions and rewards. The guarantee of the freedom of religious practices to the end that all of these other social activities may be exalted by becoming spiritually motivated.”
― Urantia Foundation, quote from The Urantia Book
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