{"quotes":[{"text":"Differences simply act as a yarn of curiosity unraveling until we get to the other side.","author":"Ciore Taylor","tags":["american-society","black-","conversation","cultural-differences","culture","diversity","female","inspirational","life","life-lessons","patience","perspective","race","racism-and-culture","self-esteem","self-help","society","spirituality","stereotypes"],"id":7450,"author_id":"Ciore+Taylor"},{"text":"Sometimes, the reason that people don’t get along is because they feel that their role is to be selfish or submissive—not understanding that American simply means understanding who we are so that we can help others do the same.","author":"Ciore Taylor","tags":["american-society","black-","conversation","cultural-differences","culture","diversity","female","inspirational","life","life-lessons","patience","perspective","race","racism-and-culture","self-esteem","self-help","society","spirituality","stereotypes"],"id":53432,"author_id":"Ciore+Taylor"},{"text":"My skin is beautiful but it also serves as a huge barrier for so many opportunities that I want to pursue in life.","author":"Ciore Taylor","tags":["american-society","black-","conversation","cultural-differences","culture","diversity","female","inspirational","life","life-lessons","patience","perspective","race","racism-and-culture","self-esteem","self-help","society","spirituality","stereotypes"],"id":74714,"author_id":"Ciore+Taylor"},{"text":"IF SOMEONE KEEPS DOING WHAT THEY'RE DOINGTHEY WILL GET BETTER AT IT, BUT.... THEY STILL WON'T BE BETTER THEN YOU!KEEP PUSHING!","author":"Qwana Reynolds-Frasier","tags":["black-","black-girl-magic","black-history","book","god","inspirational","inspirational","instagram","kemetic","love","maat","motivational","quotes","on-life","on-love"],"id":133319,"author_id":"Qwana+Reynolds-Frasier"},{"text":"It’s unfortunate really—how everyone can live on the same soil yet not even know the first thing about their neighbors.","author":"Ciore Taylor","tags":["american-society","black-","conversation","cultural-differences","culture","diversity","female","inspirational","life","life-lessons","patience","perspective","race","racism-and-culture","self-esteem","self-help","society","spirituality","stereotypes"],"id":146924,"author_id":"Ciore+Taylor"},{"text":"A life filled with excuses is defeated, unproductive, and miserable.","author":"Stephanie Lahart","tags":["black-","excuses","inspirational","inspiring","life","life","quote","quotes","stephanie-lahart","stephanie-lahart","words-of-wisdom"],"id":158163,"author_id":"Stephanie+Lahart"},{"text":"American can mean anything you want it to mean. It can mean that you live in America. It can mean that you are privileged. Being American can also mean that you are diverse. In many ways, the title American is an oxymoron because one may look it on the outside but not feel it on the inside.","author":"Ciore Taylor","tags":["american-society","black-","conversation","cultural-differences","culture","diversity","female","inspirational","life","life-lessons","perspective","race","racism-and-culture","self-esteem","self-help","society","spirituality","stereotypes"],"id":181829,"author_id":"Ciore+Taylor"},{"text":"IF YOU AIN'T RAISING THE VIBRATION YOU ARE KILLING THE VIBE!","author":"Qwana Reynolds-Frasier","tags":["black-","black-girl-magic","black-history","book","god","inspirational","inspirational","instagram","kemetic","love","maat","motivational","quotes","on-life","on-love"],"id":212286,"author_id":"Qwana+Reynolds-Frasier"},{"text":"I didn't come looking for you the day you uninvitedly appeared on my doorstepHow did we go from nonchalant conversation me waiting for you to turn me off with corny jokes and mind dumbing conversationto loveTo love and mind blowing chemistry that I've yet to make sense of What are you here to teach me?","author":"Maquita Donyel Irvin","tags":["accidental-love","art","artist","beautiful-mind","beautiful-women","black-","black-writers","christian-writers","coincidence","dating","girls-that-read","harmony","heartbreak","indie-","inspiration","jesus","lessons","love","love-poems","love","love-stories","new-love","no-coincidences","poems","purposeful-living","rare","relationship","relationships","single","stories-of-a-polished-pistil","wanderer","women-empowerment","women-writers","writers"],"id":234984,"author_id":"Maquita+Donyel+Irvin"},{"text":"I am living in world full of lost hope and discrimination. I am living a life in which social equality does not exist and I am not sure that it ever can, or if once upon a time it ever did.","author":"Ciore Taylor","tags":["american-society","black-","conversation","cultural-differences","culture","diversity","female","inspirational","life","life-lessons","patience","perspective","race","racism-and-culture","self-esteem","self-help","society","spirituality","stereotypes"],"id":391813,"author_id":"Ciore+Taylor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}