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Gabrielle Union QUOTES

Gabrielle Union QUOTES

1 " Don't save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential to every take, and be on top of your job, or they will replace you. "

― Gabrielle Union , We're Going to Need More Wine

2 " An empress does not concern herself with the antics of fools "

― Gabrielle Union , We're Going to Need More Wine

3 " To be a black person is to understand what it is to be automatically infantilized and have it be assumed that you don’t have the talent or the skill set required to do your job "

― Gabrielle Union , We're Going to Need More Wine

4 " If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself "

― Gabrielle Union , We're Going to Need More Wine

5 " You think in terms of winning and losing," she said, "but if you're winning, who's losing?"
"HIM!"
"That's your husband" she said slowly, like this might be news to me.
"You're not supposed to want him to loose."
"Wow!" I said. "You don't know me, huh! "

― Gabrielle Union , We're Going to Need More Wine

6 " You can love what you see in the mirror, but you can't self-esteem your way out of the way the world treats you. "

― Gabrielle Union

7 " When I was a little girl, my mother always told me that if I ever got lost in a big city, "Look for the rainbow flag." She believed in the goodness of the LGBTQ+ community, and knew there would be protection and direction there. I always found this to be true. "

― Gabrielle Union , You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

8 " Here’s to us being afraid and doing it anyway. "

― Gabrielle Union , We're Going to Need More Wine

9 " I remember the moment I realized I was free, looking in a mirror and saying, “I choose my motherfucking self. "

― Gabrielle Union , We're Going to Need More Wine

10 " So repeat after me: I resolve to embrace my sexuality and my freedom to do with my body parts as I see fit. And I will learn about my body so I can take care of it and get the pleasure I deserve. I will share that information with anyone and everyone, and not police the usage of any vagina but my own. So help me Judy Blume. "

― Gabrielle Union , We're Going to Need More Wine

11 " Look, you can’t take your pussy with you,” I said. “Use it. Enjoy it. Fuck, fuck, fuck, until you run out of dicks. Travel to other countries and have sex. Explore the full range of everything, and feel zero shame. Don’t let society’s narrow scope about what they think you should do with your vagina determine what you do with your vagina. "

― Gabrielle Union , We're Going to Need More Wine

12 " Until you ask my husband those same questions, I just can’t answer them anymore.” But I can’t stop. I can’t help myself. “Do you know why no one asks men how they balance it all? It’s because there is no expectation of that. Bringing home money is enough. We don’t expect you to be anything more than a provider, men. But a working woman? Not only do you have to bring home the bacon and fry it up, you gotta be a size double-zero, too. You’ve got to volunteer at the school, you’ve got to be a sex kitten, a great friend, a community activist. There are all these expectations that we put on women that we don’t put on men. In the same way, we never inquire about what’s happening in a man’s urethra. ‘Low sperm count, huh? That why you don’t have kids? Have you tried IVF? "

― Gabrielle Union , We're Going to Need More Wine

13 " Your world is only as small as you make it. "

― Gabrielle Union , We're Going to Need More Wine

14 " But the more empowered women in the workforce, the better. The more that women mentor women, the stronger our answer is to the old-boys’ network that we’ve been left out of. We can’t afford to leave any woman behind. We need every woman on the front lines lifting each other up . . . for the good of all of us and the women who come behind us. "

― Gabrielle Union , We're Going to Need More Wine

15 " Modern business is set up to squeeze out women who “want it all”—which is mostly just code for demanding equal pay for equal work. But the more empowered women in the workforce, the better. The more that women mentor women, the stronger our answer is to the old-boys’ network that we’ve been left out of. We can’t afford to leave any woman behind. We need every woman on the front lines lifting each other up . . . for the good of all of us and the women who come behind us. It’s tough to get past my own fears, so I have to remind myself that this is an experiment, to boldly go where no grown-ass woman has gone before. When we refuse to be exiled to the shadows as we mature, we get to be leaders who choose how we treat other women. If I don’t support and mentor someone like Ryan, that’s working from a place of fear. And if I put my foot on a rising star, that’s perpetuating a cycle that will keep us all weak. The actresses in the generation "

― Gabrielle Union , We're Going to Need More Wine

16 " Minstrelsy makes the audience comfortable. Now that I am on the other side of it, and proud of my blackness, they wouldn't know what to do with me. People don't know what to do with you if you are not trying to assimilate. "

― Gabrielle Union , We're Going to Need More Wine

17 " You’re gonna have to be bigger, badder, better, just to be considered equal. You’re gonna have to do twice as much work and you’re not going to get any credit. "

― Gabrielle Union , We're Going to Need More Wine

18 " My parents gave me the pep talk when I started school, the same speech all black parents give their kids: You're gonna have to be bigger, badder, better, just to be considered equal. You're gonna have to do twice as much work and you're not going to get any credit for your accomplishments or for overcoming adversity. Most black people grow accustomed to the fact that we have to excel just to be seen as existing, and this is a lesson passed down from generation to generation. You can either be Super Negro or the forgotten Negro. "

― Gabrielle Union , We're Going to Need More Wine

19 " But even when you know better, it doesn't mean you'are going to do better "

― Gabrielle Union , We're Going to Need More Wine

20 " And anything I have accomplished, I did so not in spite of being a black woman, but because I am a black woman". "

― Gabrielle Union , We're Going to Need More Wine