Once you're seen by someone, you can't disappear again.
Roxane Gay
Many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
bell hooks
In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.
Frantz Fanon
If you can't eliminate injustice, at least tell everyone about it.
Shirin Ebadi
You become strong by doing the things you need to be strong for.
Audre Lorde
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
bell hooks
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
bell hooks
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Anais Nin
Amazing the things you find when you bother to search for them.
Sacagawea
This is how I learned that if I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
Audre Lorde
Your silence will not protect you.
Audre Lorde
If people were silent, nothing would change.
Malala Yousafzai
There is power in telling our stories, especially the stories that have been silenced or dismissed.
Roxane Gay
The one who tells the stories rules the world.
Hopi Proverb
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.
Patricia Hill Collins
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
Pema Chodron
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
Frida Kahlo
The heart is your center, being from your center outward.
Anishinaabe Proverb
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.
Native American Proverb
In a time of destruction, create something.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.
Anonymous
There are few things as dangerous as people who are convinced they are right.
Edward Said
You are not lucky to be here. The world needs your perspective. They are lucky to have you.
Antonio Tijerino
Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi
A good companion shortens the longest road.
Kurdish proverb
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
Angela Davis