Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

I have healed myself through sharing my birth story as well as others' stories in my film 'No Woman, No Cry,' and in various writings and talks about maternal health.

When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.

It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.

You say their stories, it is gift they give you.

Our stories can set us free. When we set them free.

Tell your story because your story will heal you and it will heal someone else.

If you put your personal stories out there people always connect.

The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.

I love telling stories that allow people to be less afraid to tell theirs.

Honestly, my goal is just to let people hear my story and just like, feed everybody that could relate to my story in any way.

Share your true stories.

When somebody gives their testimony or tells their story, the next person can be motivated or inspired by it. That's all I'm trying to do.

Even though I was super personal with 'American Teen,' I want to tap in and not just tell my own stories but tell the stories of other people - so that I can help as many people as possible.

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

You must give your own story to the world.

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the bookmobile and I'm going to come to them.

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.

I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.

It’s not about finding your voice, it’s about giving yourself permission to use your voice.

Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

Just being able to express myself and reach so many other people by doing so is really great!

My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.