Leah Johnson > Quotes

“Olivia is a melody that has made a song of my universe, and I realize I want to spend a long time trying to figure out all the notes.”
― Leah Johnson, Rise to the Sun

“I've been searching and searching and here, with her, is the first time I've ever felt found.”
― Leah Johnson, Rise to the Sun

“These days, when I talk about success, I focus on what it means for women, as individuals, once they have broken the glass ceilings because that act alone isn’t enough. And this is what the public conversation must become. If we are truly going to make progress for women, we need to talk about what it means to support women. And women who have fought their way to unprecedented professional success need to be honest about what that battle meant for them.”
― Leah Johnson, Finding Fantastic Joy: How Building a Self-Advocacy Campaign Led Me Out of Darkness

“My church is the press of bodies together in the crowd, the pulse of a bass guitar vibrating under our feet, and a lead singer preaching the gospel of rebellion and revolution and love through beautiful harmonies and perfect chord progressions.”
― Leah Johnson, Rise to the Sun

“Love is messy and awkward and ugly, but at least it's honest.”
― Leah Johnson, Rise to the Sun

“Somewhere in the light-years of space between the spiritual and the scientific, between the known and the ineffable, there's live music.”
― Leah Johnson, Rise to the Sun

“I believe all we have is our word, that when we say things we should mean them, and mean them wholeheartedly.”
― Leah Johnson, Rise to the Sun

“Maybe I could be more than a collection of my parents' anxieties. Maybe I could find a way to love wholly, and fiercely, without having to settle for one or the other.”
― Leah Johnson, Rise to the Sun

“When her eyes stop on me and her smile goes wide, I know. Toni said before that I was worth every good thing, but I think it's more than that. I am every good thing.”
― Leah Johnson, Rise to the Sun

“When someone in your life is sick, or could get seriously sicker, you’re always waiting for the other shoe to drop. Even when things are doing well, when it seems like everything is fine, some part of you is anticipating the worst”
― Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

“I never needed this race or a hashtag or the king to be a queen. I was born royalty. All I had to do was pick up my crown.”
― Leah Johnson, You Should See Me in a Crown

“Like Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart: Freaky, but it works.”
― Leah Johnson