Alicia Garza Quotes

I'm so proud to be a black woman; I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

Black women, dark skin women are the original beautiful people to me.

I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.

If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.

I wrote 'Milk' for me. I wrote it for the younger version of me that had no clue that there are people who'd ever fought for my rights.

I love being black.

I think that's the best thing about being black is that we find a way to make our own communities and always give room for people to pull up to our tables. We always provide a way for other people from different walks of life to come into the communities that we have built because we're so used to being excluded.

If you think you aren't valid for whatever reason, let my existence and the way the world embraces my existence tell you that you are valid. You deserve to look, live, and walk through the world however you see fit. That's why I find it extremely important to be so out, so black, and so myself.

Black is beautiful.

I am a black woman, and my experiences would not be what they are if I wasn't. I'm so happy to share those experiences for other people to be able to learn from them.

When white supremacy has you down, honey, go out dancing, have as much fun as you can.

To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.

I am for Obama, all the way. I don't support Obama just because he is a black man; I support him because he is an educated black man. He is making black people proud.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

It's been a hard time to celebrate, to come out with a smile. But I'm an American. Naomi asked me to come out to support other Americans, and here I am.

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

I am Chinese - it doesn't matter what other people say.

I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.

I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.

Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.

Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.

It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.