"Don't make the world let you feel that you have to look a certain way to be brilliant. And no, you don't have to speak a certain way to be brilliant. But you do have to spread your gift around the planet in a way that is authentically you." 

– Beyoncé

"It’s a tremendous honor to be one of Inc.’s 2024 Female Founders honorees. Everyone deserves the chance to thrive and belong and this recognition is validation that the work of inclusion matters."

— Michelle Silverthorn

“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen.”

– Brené Brown

“Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.”

– Zendaya

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

– Audre Lorde

"As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we'll all be better off for it."

– Sandra Day O'Connor

"When I was the only Black girl in that class, when you saw me and told me I was enough. When I told you, 'I don't see myself,' and you said, 'That's fine, we're going to forge our own path. You're going to lay a trail for yourself."

- Da'Vine Joy Randolph thanking her acting professor in her Oscars acceptance speech

"I am a woman / Phenomenally / Phenomenal woman / That’s me."

— Maya Angelou

"I believe that each of us carries a bit of inner brightness, something entirely unique and individual, a flame that's worth protecting. When we are able to recognize our own light, we become empowered to use it."

— Michelle Obama

“We go jam till the moon come down.

Is we who the stars shine on.

Play a mas and break away.

Freedom in we DNA!”

— Mical Teja, DNA, Carnival 2024 Road March

“There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.”

– Amanda Gorman

“Don't you know?

They're talkin' 'bout a revolution.

It sounds like a whisper.”

– Tracy Chapman

“What diversity advocates are working for is an industry that honestly, accurately, and equitably represents the world we live in.”

–Mike Jung

"Being an ally can't just be about nodding when someone says something we agree with - important as that is. It must also be about action. It's our job to stand up for those who are not at the table when life-altering decisions are made. Not just those people who look like us. Not just those who need what we need."

― Kamala Harris

“Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.”

—Melody Beattie

“Know your worth, hold your own power, be you.”

– Morgan Harper Nichols

“Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers."

–Kahlil Gibran

“We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.”

- Shirley Chisholm

“Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is the true prosperity.”

– Eckhart Tolle