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“Your life is your responsibility. Your healing is your responsibility.”
“Trust the divine wisdom that is within you.”
“Sister, you are enough. You have always been enough.”
“Do the inner work, or the outer work will undo you.”
“You teach people how to treat you by what you allow.”
“Your past is a teacher, not a prison.”
“Healing is a daily practice.”
“You are worthy of love. You always have been.”
“Don't shrink to fit. Expand to belong.”
“The wound is the place the light enters and the place the light leaves.”
“Your soul knows what it came here to do. Listen.”
“Grief is the price of love. Pay it gladly.”
“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for everything else.”
“Until you forgive yourself, you cannot truly forgive others.”
“Be still. Listen. Your soul is speaking.”
“You are the answer you've been looking for.”
“To love is to be willing to be wounded.”
“Faith without action is just hope.”
“The only way out is through.”
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