A curated register of quotes from under-represented voices.

“ I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. ”

— Frida Kahlo

“ I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way. ”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“ I truly believe American Sign Language is important because from the beginning, when a child is born, if they learn ASL, they have full access to information. ”

— Christine Sun Kim, 2017

“ Sound is a social currency. ”

— Christine Sun Kim

“ I mostly have to think about identity when it's imposed on me. When people on the street send slurs my way. When forms require me to pick a gender. ”

— Alok Vaid-Menon

“ There are as many genders as there are people. ”

— Alok Vaid-Menon, 2022

“ As a deaf person living in a world of sound, it's as if I was living in a foreign country, blindly following its rules, customs, behaviors, and norms without ever questioning them. ”

— Christine Sun Kim

“ You can start late, look different, be uncertain, and still succeed. ”

— Misty Copeland

“ Bringing our true self is possible only when there is no fear of retribution or ridicule, and in fact appreciation and celebration of what makes each of us unique. ”

— Roma Bindroo

“ There are years that ask questions and years that answer. ”

— Zora Neale Hurston, 1937

“ Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. ”

— Wilma Rudolph

“ If not me, who, if not now, when. ”

— Emma Watson, 2014

“ The only way to survive is by taking care of one another. ”

— Grace Lee Boggs

“ The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. ”

— Ada Lovelace, 1843

“ When I leave this world, I don't want to be remembered as just being good at tennis. I want to be remembered as a good person and a good advocate. ”

— Coco Gauff, 2022

“ We are still here. The will to survive is engrained in us, passed down through the generations by our ancestors. ”

— Deb Haaland, 2021

“ Nothing about us, without us. ”

— Sinéad Burke, 2023

“ Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. ”

— Nikki Giovanni

“ You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. ”

— Angela Davis

“ Where there is a tree to plant, plant it yourself. ”

— Gabriela Mistral

“ Abolition is really about rethinking the kind of future we want, the social future, the economic future, the political future. It's about revolution, I would argue. ”

— Angela Davis, 2020