Jay-Z Quotes

I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us and the charts.

I tend to focus on young people and on giving a voice to groups of people who don't normally get their voices heard.

At the end of the day, what I have is the power to give a louder voice to people who have issues, questions and problems.

I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.

I'm going to keep doing the comedy and the art that I do. I'm going to keep uplifting marginalized voices, and I think that's my place to do that.

Those that have a voice have to speak for those of us who are silenced.

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

I'm lucky enough to have some celebrity light around me. I can go on a platform and say what I think to represent these voices that can't be heard.

I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of "I want to tell the people."

Go out and speak for the inarticulate and submerged.

This is an important appointment to a community that has often felt excluded from the decision making process.

Open a door for the disaffected of your State to come in.

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.

My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

I view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn't first lady my whole life. I'm a product of pop culture. I'm a consumer of pop culture, and I know what resonates with people.

Listening to an underserved population is how you begin to understand them and serve them better.

I just want to use my voice and my platform to help people. Whether it be political or therapeutic.

I'm not a vitiligo spokesperson just because I have vitiligo.

I want to represent all the Latin people. I want to do this for the rest of my life.

Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it.

I've stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district... a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.

When things happen socially in our community, as artists, we've got the right to exercise our voices if we choose to, use our powers for good.

I say what a lot of people want to say but can't say. I'm just a voice of the people.

When marginalized people gain voice and center their own experiences, things begin changing. And we see this in all kinds of grassroots movements.