“Never allow any soul to clips your wings, you were born an ember. You were born a flame.”

We all have a voice. If you take a stand, you could be changing someones life.

Next time they are cruel to you, listen carefully, and if you listen you will hear their pain and just like that see their heart.

You’re too powerful to be a slave of acceptance.

I refuse to be ashamed of the fact that my body does bleed each month; it is why we are all here.

You’re too powerful to be a slave of acceptance.

If you don’t set your spirit free now then when will you find your wild.

And one day I hope your path leads you to a place where you love yourself as much as I love you.

Their compliments should not define you and nor should their criticism break you.

There is a fire raging inside you; do not allow anyone to extinguish it. And so on these nights when you think you are broken, remember the flame, and feel it burn.

There is a world up ahead where people are not targeted for beliefs or bodies, where peace isn’t a fantasy but reality. Build the world you hope your children will see.

I had all of the love in the world but I could not see it. We are blind when we don’t know how to love the very bones and blood that make us.

Shame bleeds through generation to generation. That is not the legacy I wish for you.

Be the light that floods the wounds of people lost in their own darkness.

If you don’t set your spirit free now then when will you find your wild.

Missing you is the cruelest thing I could do to my heart, and maybe that’s why I do it: its easier to hurt myself than love myself.

We all have a voice. If you take a stand, you could be changing someones life.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

All my sorrows can be borne if you’re only next to me.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

Everybody’s born to be different, that’s the one thing that makes us the same.

I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.