Alicia Garza Quotes

Live your life to its fullest potential and don't really care too much about what other people think of you.

It's what I tell my daughters: Know that your birthright is to shine your light, and don't let anybody deny you of that right. Take responsibility for your life.

I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.

Don't change who you are and it's okay to say no.

Truth, honesty, empowerment - it's what I want for myself and my readers.

What I want to represent for my daughters is that you can always stay true to yourself and still be successful.

I just want people to understand that regardless of what it is that you do - whether you're a teacher, whether you are a doctor, a single mother, a college student, a big sister - that you have strength within you, and I want people to be inspired to walk in their own superhero regardless of what it is that they do.

It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know.

For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur.

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.

Know your power.

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

Sometimes I gotta look in the mirror and say, 'Hey, they're still saying you're too fat, but you're here! They gotta take it or leave it.' And in most cases, if they leave it, it's all good because they don't need to be in my space anyway.

No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.

I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when you are happy yourself, can you make everyone else around you happy. I am still a dreamer and still believe in fairy tales, but there is only that much one should give another person. You need to keep something for yourself.

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

Let me do me.