Always remember, you
I have learned over the
have within you the
strength, the patience,
and the passion to reach
for the stars to change
the world.
– Harriet Tubman
The secret of life is to have
no fear; it’s the only way to
function.
– Stokely Carmichael
I got my start by giving
myself a start.
– Madame CJ Walker
You don’t make progress
by standing on the
sidelines, whimpering and
complaining. You make
progress by implementing
ideas.
– Shirley Chisholm
You never know which
experiences of life are
going to be of value . . .
You’ve got to leave yourself
open to the hidden
opportunities.
– Robin Roberts
“Caring for myself is not
self-indulgence, it is self-
preservation, and that is an
act of political warfare.”
― Audre Lorde, A Burst of
Light
You can’t make decisions
based on fear and the
possibility of what might
happen.
– Michelle Obama
I have discovered in life
that there are ways of
getting almost anywhere
you want to go, if you really
want to go.
– Langston Hughes
Start where you are, with
what you have. Make
something of it and never
be satisfied.
– George Washington
Carver
Change will not come if we
wait for some other person, There is never time in the
or if we wait for some other future in which we will work
time. We are the ones
we’ve been waiting for. We challenge is in the moment;
are the change that we the time is always now.
seek.
– Barack Obama
Never be limited by other
people’s limited
imaginations.
– Dr. Mae Jamison
“I am a feminist, and what that
means to me is much the
same as the meaning of the
fact that I am Black; it means
that I must undertake to love
myself and to respect myself
as though my very life
depends upon self-love and
self-respect.”
― June Jordan, Civil Wars
If you don’t like
something, change it. If
you can’t change it,
change your attitude.
– Maya Angelou
If I didn’t define myself for
myself, I would be
crunched into other
people’s fantasies for me
and eaten alive.
– Audre Lorde
I prayed for twenty years
but received no answer
until I prayed with my legs.
– Frederick Douglass
out our salvation. The
– James Baldwin
I find freedom sexy. I find
freedom so sexy, I can’t
even explain it to you. You
wake up every day and feel
like you can do anything.
– Prince
“There are opportunities
even in the most difficult
moments.”
― Wangari Maathai,
Unbowed
years that when one’s mind
is made up, this diminishes
fear; knowing what must be
done does away with fear.
– Rosa Parks
You are no better than
anyone else, and no one is
better than you.
– Katherine Johnson
Dreams do not come true
just because you dream
them. It’s hard work that
makes things happen. It’s
hard work that creates
change.
– Shonda Rhimes
If you can’t fly then run, if
you can’t run then walk, if
you can’t walk then crawl,
but whatever you do you
have to keep moving
forward.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Now that I knew fear, I
also knew it was not
permanent. As powerful as
it was, its grip on me would
loosen. It would pass.”
― Louise Erdrich, The
Round House
Passion in never enough;
neither is skill. But try. For
our sake and yours forget
your name in the street; tell
us what the world has been
to you in the dark places
and in the light.
--Toni Morrison