I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. We cannot succeed when half of us are held back. (Malala…

I want every girl to know that her voice can change the world. (Malala Yousafzai)

International Women’s Day 3/8 – Little girls with dreams become women with visions. (Unknown)

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us--that's where it's at. (Jesse Owens)

When I found I had crossed that line, [on her first escape from slavery, 1845] I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was…

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.…

Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and…

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. (Howard Thurman)

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. (Maya Angelou)

I refuse to accept the view that humankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace can never become a…