Dana Robinson

“Leadership is taking care of yourself and empowering others to do the same. Leadership is not a position to earn, it’s an inherent power to claim. Leadership is the blood that runs through your veins—it’s born in you. It’s not the privilege of a few, it is the right and responsibility of all. Leader is not a title that the world gives to you—it’s an offering that you give to the world.”
― Abby Wambach, WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game

“Just that, two people, witnessing or experiencing the same event, can have two entirely different interpretations of the truth. To one person, the knot was a heart, and removing it devastated the stone such that it succumbed to the artist’s vision. To another, the knot was an obstruction to the stone, preventing it from being what or who it was meant to be.”
― Penny Reid, Beard Necessities

“We can't attack a thing we don't know. That's dangerous. And...foolish. It would be like trying to chop down a tree from the top of it. If we understand how the tree works, how the trunk and roots are where the power lies, and how gravity is on our side, we can attack it, each of us with small axes, and change the face of the the forest.”
― Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

“Nothings lasts forever. Not a song, not happiness, not misery! Mere survival is no safer than living for hopes and dreams. At the end, there will always be the end! So why not dream? why not hope? Why not live life with wild faith and abandon? Why not take the risk? Otherwise all these moment: small or significant, heaven on earth, would be lost to fear”
― Penny Reid, Beard Necessities