85 Quotes by Susan L. Taylor

We don’t have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

Women work overtime, do double triple duty, juggle ten balls at once – children, careers, husbands, schoolwork, housework, church work, and more work – and when one of the balls drops, we think something is wrong with us.

It takes a lot of energy to dull the soul and not hear its voice.

The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation’s racial divide.

Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution.

We have to fill our hearts with gratitude. Gratitude makes everything that we have more than enough.

We must learn how to live in the space of inner peace in our everyday lives. This takes consistent, conscious effort because I know so many black women are hurting and sad, and we don't easily express our heartache or show our wounds.

We need a new order of ministers to stand in pulpits. It's not enough to sing and praise God in worship services. Any religion that doesn't encourage us to work together to end the needless suffering all around us is godless.

I write about spirituality not so we get strong from within and achieve some state of nirvana and then distance ourselves from the real world. I write about it so we can feel empowered to doing the critical work that this generation of black women are charged with doing.