What doesn't bend, breaks.

A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.

I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl.

They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor.

In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.