Valentine's Day don't mean nothing. It's a pressure day for men — all they can do is just survive it. It's a "made up" holiday that they put too close after Christmas.

Sinbad

Sinbad on Valentine’s Day

April 22, 2015

Source: Gapers Block, 2013

I'm older now so I see a little bit better than I did before. My longest relationships now are about nine months. Actually, now it's grown to six months. There's no need for me to waste my time or anybody else's. I know by then. If you make it over the six month hump, you have done something. I must really like you.

Jill Scott

I think every person deserves two marriages, because you may not get the first one right. You really never knew. That’s why divorce is so big. We all want it to last, but that’ not always the reality of it.

Tichina Arnold

You have to nourish that relationship, you have to work on that relationship and value it constantly.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Number one: find yourself. Find what you want, find what you can handle and what you can’t handle.

Tia Mowry-Hardrict

I think that, at this point, we should just follow our hearts and really not worry about what other people think.

Sanaa Lathan

I’m used to operating in my own space on my own time. But when you’re married, that dynamic completely changes.

Tichina Arnold

Just because a man is attracted to another woman does not mean that he does not love you. And it doesn’t mean that he’s going to act on it.

Jada Pinkett Smith

What I think is key is everybody has to approach a relationship from a realistic standpoint. Everybody has stuff in the back of a trunk. The key is what kind of stuff can you deal with. There are some women who can deal with a relationship that I can’t. If you can figure that out, then you know what to look for.

Tia Mowry-Hardrict

Your soulmate, the man of your dreams, may not live an hour away.

Steve Harvey

I am more than just a label. Why are people so driven to labeling where we fall on the sexual spectrum? Labels put people in boxes, and those boxes are shaped like coffins. Finding the right person can be so hard that often, when a person finally finds someone she or he is comfortable with, she or he just makes it work.

Chirlane McCray

Don't force anything. Trust your gut. If you feel something's wrong, it probably is.

Michael Strahan

You cannot be part of a couple until you're a whole person first. It is a lifelong journey, but a lot of people don't take that step: I'm spending all this energy taking care of men - what would happen if I spent that time on myself?

Kim Coles

We have to look at our own self in the mirror and self-examine our issues. Sometimes we want people to change, but we have to do our part too. We often blame the other person but sometimes it is you. You have to make sure you are doing the changes you seek from the other person, as well.

Tamela Mann

I’m not a fan of flings when you work, cause that’s where it gets a little dangerous.

Grace Gealey

The Negro is always to blame if some white woman decides she wants him.

Miles Davis

I love when a woman believes in you no matter what the ups or downs. That’s really beautiful.

Peter Hadar

The problem with a lot of us in relationship is that we don’t want to face the truth. We hope for the best. We hope that maybe this will be the one, but there are signs there that he isn’t the one. We try to hang on anyway.

Loni Love

All my friends are male, and they're from all walks of life. I have friends from all different races. We have cultural differences, but we think the same way. And I can share with women exactly how men think, exactly how your man thinks. I don't care who he is, how old he is, how much he makes. When it comes to these subjects, this is how men think.

Steve Harvey

As for men, when you find a good woman you have to treat her like treasure and not trash. We have to start treating women like treasure that they are, so we can start building the Queen for the King we are to become.

David Mann

So in the beginning, you say exactly where you are, you say exactly what your intentions are and then you let that person decide what they want to do with you. And if it turns into something it does. If it doesn't then you were honest in the beginning.

Brian McKnight

With relationships, it’s all a matter of building trust.

Tichina Arnold

You know, when you’re single, you’re very independent. Very independent women raised me. We didn’t have a lot of male figures as the head of our household, so I got, and took on, a lot of that strong spirit from the matriarchs in my family. It allows you to get on through life a lot easier, but the downside is that you don’t have that experience of watching a male figure interact with women in the home. When you come from an all-female household, when you’re in a relationship, you get into situations you don’t really know how to handle, which I didn’t.

Tichina Arnold

I think there's got to be a break in the time to process, and then guys need even longer to process because they take so long to even acknowledge anything's happened. So I think you need time.

Rashida Jones

But if your relationship is built on love you can work your way through almost any difficulty.

Daphne Maxwell Reid

I think friendship is the strongest form of relationship.

50 Cent

We created the term nagging. There's really no such thing as nagging. As soon as a woman starts registering her complaint, we call it nagging. We let you know it will drive us away.

Steve Harvey

I call myself taking control of a situation, but sometimes you really have to learn to humble yourself, and to submit yourself. I’m not really good with submission, so that’s the part of marriage and relationships that I’ve found very hard to deal with.

Tichina Arnold

Naturally, I’m shy. I didn’t even date until I was in my twenties.

Viola Davis

Most times, when you marry, you don’t know who you are, and there’s no way you can have a successful relationship that way. If you don’t know who you are, how the hell are you going to give to somebody else?

Tichina Arnold

Sometimes bad girls are tired of bad s***.

Rihanna

All relationships have their share of obstacles, and you just try not to have yours plastered.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I will chew her ass up and swallow it before I let somebody else have her.

Duane Martin

We’ll be side pieces and sacrifice, but in the end you’re not going to be happy.

Loni Love

As Black women we sacrifice. We stand by our man, through thick and thin, through whatever. But if you feel like, 'Maybe I am getting the short end of the stick,' that's when a change has to take place.

Kim Porter

The one thing I know about women is women don’t really want to just date. They want to date with the hope that it leads to a relationship.

Steve Harvey

So many standards have been lowered by women that now a man doesn't have to climb over a very high bar to get to her. So now you have more men who can get away with more things with more women without any repercussions.

Steve Harvey

And a lot of times men cheat because there are so many women out there willing to cheat. If women say, 'I'll take something rather than nothing' — wow, that's a playground for us.

Steve Harvey

Women's standards and requirements have lowered. And as men, we know that. We have taken advantage of it.

Steve Harvey

My attitude is, you better have a sense of humor because it's either laugh or cry. You better laugh at the situation rather than just stay sort of mired in it.

Kim Coles

I would tell my daughters and women in general, wait and let Mr.Right find you not Mr.Right Now. If you wait on God and let the man find you, things work out better.

David Mann