It’s empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Only you can control your future.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

I want the world to see my body.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

The best thing about my protest has been to see how more and more people have been coming and getting involved.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

For way too long the politicians and people in power have got away with not doing anything at all to fight the climate crisis and ecological crisis.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

I got my own back.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

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.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Before all else, be armed.