Iyanla Vanzant
American inspirational speaker, life coach, and Yoruba priestess (an iyalawo of the Ifá tradition), one of the most influential African-American spiritual voices of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Born in 1953 in a Brooklyn taxi cab and surviving a childhood marked by abuse and early motherhood, she went on to become a public defender, an inner-city minister, an Oprah Winfrey Show favorite, and the host of OWN's Iyanla: Fix My Life. Her books — Acts of Faith, In the Meantime, Yesterday, I Cried, One Day My Soul Just Opened Up — have sold millions of copies and are particularly beloved in the African-American spiritual tradition for their unflinching honesty about generational trauma, self-love, and the work of healing.
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Quotes by Iyanla Vanzant
100 quotes“You don't owe anyone your trauma.”
“Be still and know who you are.”
“Your dreams are valid. Pursue them.”
“Stop apologizing. Stop explaining. Stop justifying. Just live.”
“What is meant for you cannot pass you by.”
“In every wound, there is wisdom waiting.”
“Choose love over fear. Always.”
“You are the protagonist of your story. Write boldly.”
“Your peace is more important than their drama.”
“Don't dim your light to make others comfortable.”
“To know your worth is to never settle for less.”
“Your scars are evidence that you survived.”
“Love yourself enough to walk away.”
“In the meantime, become who you came here to be.”
“Speak to yourself the way you speak to someone you love.”
“Your tears have a voice. Listen.”
“Rebuild yourself. You are the architect.”
“Your spirit knows the way. Follow it.”
“You did not come here to play small. You came to be magnificent.”
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