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“We all sew a few sequins on our stories to make them shine brighter.”
― Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids

“In a time of alleged heightened "feminism" women of color and poor women are being left behind, and yet the trappings that uniquely target us, like poverty, incarceration, police brutality, and immigration, aren't often quantified as "feminist issues".

The reason there is so much dissidence between what a female CEO says you can do and the lived reality of what you can feasibly do is that this type feminism wasn't made for us. We need a movement that addresses the reality of women's lives rather than the aspiration of what they hope to be.”
― Koa Beck, White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind

“An acorn does not have to say, ‘I intend to become an oak tree'. Natural intelligence intends that every living thing become the highest form of itself and designs us accordingly.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban