Quotes by Grace Gealey

Everybody has a different journey. Everybody has a different path, and you dont really know what to expect. All you know is to just keep plugging away, and you hope something will come through and something will happen.

In society, we have to earn other things of import like trust, respect, money, education, careers, status and etc., so naturally, we find ourselves attempting to earn love, acceptance and validation along with that. Heres the trip: we do it at the cost of other people and, more importantly, ourselves.

We may not know what each day has in store for us. We could be gone tomorrow. Any minute could truly be our goodbye. But we do have this moment. This time. Today. Right now. It takes way more effort to shell out hate then it does to allow love to flow freely in our lives. After all, its what we were born to do.

When I look around at this world, we women need each other so badly, it breaks my heart. Sisterhood is dissipating, and we arent doing nearly enough to salvage it. Eliminate the crazies in your life, yes. But also look again at those around you.

Theres competition among women everywhere you go. But back home, we understand that you can look like a variety of things and still be from the same culture. What Im saying is that Ive never felt like I was a light-skinned black woman. Never felt that way because we shared the same culture back home.

Theres something scary, knowing that in Florida, someone can pick you up in a car and drive you to 50 states. Back home, its like, Girl, youre 15 minutes away.