Jami Attenberg Quotes

With the Internet, you hear voices that you never knew were out there.

Video gives people a voice.

Everyone must have a voice, and everyone deserves clarity.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage.

I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.

Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.

I can say sincerely, don't take your voice for granted. It is truly what makes us all equal.

I want people to be able to give their voice.

A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Our American experiment deserves an advocate, and the American people respond best to inspiration, not fear-mongering.

I just want to inspire people to be different.

I've learned to appreciate looking unique and not having long, blond locks... at last.

All of the children need to know, all of the little kiddies and fetuses out there. Even if they're not out of the womb yet, they need to know that it's okay to be whoever the heck you are.

Maybe, whatever influence we have, other songwriters or women or whatever can feel like they can have a place too, I guess. Or that they don't have to do things the way that we've been taught we have to do them.

We don't expect someone in a bikini to stand up for women's rights; we only expect a girl in an 'NGO outfit' to speak about it. It's as much as the right of the girl in the bikini to talk about it as a woman in a kurta. We need to embrace that multiplicity.

Somehow, defending my liberal values of free speech, liberty, and rights of the individual has become a conservative position.

Being in the body of an African-American woman, I prefer animation. I get to be everybody. I don't have to always be the white girl's best friend. I can be the princess. I can make an inanimate object come to life. I can be a little boy. I can be anything.

Well, I think when one has got beliefs and expresses and communicates them then one also radiates some kind of freedom that some people might not dare having.

It's our time to fight for the America we know we can have.

Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity.

There are so many types of beauty that all deserve to be celebrated.

I just think it is so delightful to see people, let their elbows free. I think the exuberance of it all is really exciting to me. It's a signal of the abundance of diversity and creative expression.

Now is a time where social media allows people to be heard on a different level. Everyone is using their voice.