No matter what the industry you choose to ultimately invest all your time and energy in, be sure you're the owner, founder, and CEO. Remember, if you don't own it, you can't control it nor can you depend on it.

— Brandi L. Bates

No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.

— Brandi L. Bates

On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of Atonement or Remembrance (NOT ONE), no, thanks for 400+ years of free labor, forced servitude across the Trans-Atlantic, ass beatings, buying ourselves and families out of slavery, rape and plunder...but everyone else has monuments, special museums, and even movies. This is what America thinks of black people, so-called black president and all, who has been largely silent on this subject...we'll even celebrate Leprechauns, Easter Bunnies, and Secretary's Day before we acknowledge our history.

— Brandi L. Bates

Quality sells itself. No hype needed.

— Brandi L. Bates

Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?

— Brandi L. Bates

Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.

— Brandi L. Bates

Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.

— Brandi L. Bates

Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.

— Brandi L. Bates

The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness...

— Brandi L. Bates

The light of an early Summer afternoon as it slips toward dusk has so many good things wrapped up in it.

— Brandi L. Bates