You can’t let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.
To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year’s Eve in San Francisco.
I have a no-die clause in every movie. The black people can’t be dying all the time.
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make ours a better world. They are the greatest disciplinarians known to mankind.
If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it’s not common sense yet.
Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea.
At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It’s really your essence and your values that are important.
Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
The more time goes on, the closer I am to the ground. I’ve been exposed to so many issues and people living under different pressures. It’s helped me realize that a lot of glamorous things that people prioritize really don’t matter.
We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
Being queen is overrated.
Travelers are the greatest ambassadors of tolerance.
Holy scripture does not hold women back. It’s the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.
I’ve learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.
Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone’s rights. It’s where we’re reminded that we’re all human and all equal. It’s where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.