"I am different, but not less."

― Dr. Temple Grandin

"We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own."

— Cesar Chavez

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." 

— Booker T. Washington

"I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else."

– Abby Wambach

"Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." 

– James Baldwin

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes ... Including you."

― Anne Lamott

"If you don't think representation matters, you're probably well represented."

– Bernice King

"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."

– Maya Angelou

"You have been assigned this mountain so that you can show others it can be moved."

– Mel Robbins

"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