"You're allowed to assert your needs and take up space. You're allowed to hold onto the truth that who you are is exactly enough." — Daniell Koepke

"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." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

"When you feel the need to apologize or explain who you are, it means the voice in your head is telling you the wrong story. Wipe the slate clean. And rewrite it. No fairy tales. Be your own narrator. And go for a happy ending. One foot in front of the other. You will make it.” ― Shonda Rhimes

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
-- John F. Kennedy, Jr.

"There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” -- Audre Lorde

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?" -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." – Audre Lorde

"We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach." -- Gloria Steinem

"Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time."
-- Anna Quindlen

"Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself." – Mohsin Hamid

“There are no myths about Generation X. It's all true." 
- Chuck Klosterman

“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.”
- Roberto Clemente

"Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want." – Frances Moore Lappe

"I believe that if we stop talking at one another and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done." – Barack Obama

"Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?" — Michelle Obama

"Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?" — Michelle Obama

"The single story creates stereotype and the problem with stereotype is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete, they make one story become the only story." – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“My vote is my voice…and the voice of all who struggled, so that I may have my voice.” — Lydia Obasi

"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."

— Audre Lorde

"The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does."

— Kara Walker