“If your mind is on everybody else's business, you got life f*cked up. It's time to do what you need to do to ELEVATE [YOUR LIFE]! MONEY just DON'T fall in yo lap.”— Missy Elliott, twitter.com
“Feeling sad. Advocating for inclusivity in powerful orgs. is stressful. People don't want to relinquish thrones. They talk equality but when I propose action they're like, 'that's on next year's agenda.' People, bring me back to center! What does your safe space look like?”— Quiara A Hudes, twitter.com
“What you do today determines what you can do tomorrow. Be yourself now, you are not a horizon, you're the current footstep, you're a present-tense verb.”— Quiara A Hudes, twitter.com
“To truly feel better, you must be committed to moving forward—you must make the first move, take the first step and do what is required, no matter how difficult.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Sometimes there is no next time, no second chance, no time out. Sometimes it is now or never.”— Mel Robbins, twitter.com
“You can't just sit there and moan forever. You've gotta deal and you've gotta learn how to rise from your mistakes.”— Cassey Ho, instagram.com
“Take a moment to imagine the best version of yourself. How do they spend their time? What choices do they make? What kind of people do they surround themselves with? Now ask yourself, what's stopping me from being that person right now?”— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com
“complaining about "what was" ain't changing "what is." go out, handle your business, tend to your gardens, and water your grass...”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“wanna win? be present, be kind, be honest; invest time and energy into yourself and your craft/purpose, and into the folks you love and care for.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“I’m not sure how much more clearly we can say this: Everything we’re doing, if it doesn’t involve eliminating fossil fuel use immediately, is actively making the climate problem worse. There is no time left for incremental action. It is literally do or die time.”— Eric Holthaus, twitter.com
“Our task is to reduce emissions as quickly and justly as possible, no matter the political context. We don’t have time to wait for 'a better time.'”— Eric Holthaus, twitter.com
“At some point, we have to say it: Climate change is the biggest act of injustice in the history of humanity. It is our moral duty to demand justice, whatever the cost. That time for me is now.”— Eric Holthaus, twitter.com
“This is a turning point in our society and we don't realize it yet. When our eyes are finally open, what will we do?”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“Everyone has an opinion about everything/everybody but opinions aren't enough. We have to act. There is too much at stake.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the d…”— Martin Luther King Jr., americanrhetoric.com