5 Quotes & Sayings By Raynetta Manees

Raynetta Manees is an award-winning author whose work has been featured on the CBS Evening News, CNN, and in Essence magazine. Manees has collaborated with some of the world’s biggest celebrities on their books, including Oprah Winfrey on The Soul of Money, Will Smith on Fearless, Jada Pinkett-Smith on Sixteen, LL Cool J on The Five Point Scale, and many others. Her own books include Love Bites (HarperCollins), which was named one of Oprah’s Favorite Books of the Year; Grace (HarperCollins), which won the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction;and The Souls of Black Folk (HarperCollins), which was named one of Oprah’s Favorite Books of the Year. She is also the author of five children’s books: A Message from Myself (HarperCollins), When I Grow Up (HarperCollins), I Have a Dream! (HarperCollins) and A Message from My Heart (HarperCollins) Read more

She lives in New York City with her husband and son.

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The DARRYL part of him that exploded on stage made its spellbinding, turbulent presence most felt off stage when we made love. He was a symphony of contradiction; tender, yet fierce; sweet, yet riotous; impassioned, yet leisurely; giving, yet unquenchable. We lay there naked on the carpet a long time afterward, both too depleted–and too content–to move. Raynetta Manees
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I have a hundred million fans, Angela, but I have very few friends. Raynetta Manees
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Those men ate like food had just been invented Raynetta Manees
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Everything in life has its price, and often the heaviest prices we pay are not in terms of money. Raynetta Manees