“You look ridiculous if you dance. You look ridiculous if you don’t dance. So you might as well dance.” – Gertrude Stein

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” - Gloria Stieniem 

“We can no longer let people in power decide what hope is. Hope is not passive. Hope is not ‘blah blah blah.’ Hope is telling the truth. Hope is taking action. And hope always comes from the people.” - Greta Thunberg

“If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off… no matter what they say.” -Barbara McClintock

“There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.” – Mia Hamm

“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” - Wilma Rudolph

“People don't want you to be yourself, they just want you to be the person that they've decided you should be.” - Sarra Manning

“Living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.” - Carrie Chapman Catt

“Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.” - Suzanne La Follette

“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” — Frida Kahlo

“You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.” – Billie Holiday

"You don’t exist if you’re not represented...I felt a need to claim my own social existence by making the representation happen.” - Njideka Akunyili Crosby

“A fool will lose tomorrow reaching back for yesterday.” - Dionne Warwick

“You either want to be right or you want to be happy. To be happy, there’s gotta be a conversation.” — Donald Glover

“What I’ve learned from myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.” — Lupita Nyong’o

“Sometimes being your most authentic self involves accepting others for who they are.” – Bob

“It’s very easy to look at the world and think, this is all so cruel and so mean. It’s important to not become bitter from it.” – RuPaul

“It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on.” – Julian Eltinge

“Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.” – Marlene Dietrich

“All reaction is limited by, and dependent on, what it is reacting against.” - Gloria Anzaldua

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." - Mary Pickford

“History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable. It happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.” - Marsha P. Johnson

"Whoever debases others is debasing himself." – James Baldwin

“I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.”- Emily Blackwell

“You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines.” - Shirley Chisholm

“To me, beauty is inclusion– every size, every color– that’s the world I live in.” -Prabal Gurung

"Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart." – Roy Bennett

"Live for each second without hesitation." – Elton John

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love." – Bob Marley

"If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow." – Beyoncé

"Success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with; you're just gonna end up lonely." - Selena Gomez

"In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism." - Hannah Arendt

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression." – W.E.B. Du Bois

"Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit." -- Helena Rubinstein

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”-Alice Walker

"If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself." — Zanele Muholi

“When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.” - Elliot Page

“Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character.” - Amanda Gorman 

“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” - Malala Yousafzai

“It is not easy to be a pioneer- but oh, it is fun” - Elizabeth Blackwell

 “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.” - Maya Angelou

“I care not what people say of me so long as I do right.” - Running Eagle

"We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn." - Mary Catherine Bateson

"Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before." —Shinzo Abe

“I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.” - Sacheen Littlefeath

“A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.” - Tecumseh

“I am making the conscious decision to present myself the way I want to today.” -Hunter Schafer

“Raise a ruckus and make a change…you’ll be part of something larger and bigger and greater than yourself.” - Samuel Jackson

"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort." ~ Jane Austen

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one" ~ Bruce Lee

“It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.” - Angela Davis

“We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.” -Maxine Hong Kingston

“Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward.” - Hilary Clinton

“We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.” -George Takei

“You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.” ― Janis Joplin

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." ~ Mother Teresa

“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns” - Octavia Butler

"A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them." ~ Harper Lee

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” -Lena Horne

Never stop believing in yourself. You had it all along.” -Karamo Brown

"Woman must not accept; she must challenge." ~ Margaret Sanger

“I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.” - Coco Chanel

“I realize that just living my truth of what I am, there’s one less person to fight me in my own head.” -Raven-Symone