Words matter. These are the best Marley Dias Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When I get lost in a book, it’s just, like, magical!
I think the biggest thing is that success is not measured by whether or not you’re on ‘CBS This Morning’ or whether or not you make the local news station.
People say, ‘Dream big!’ – but you have to think about the logistics. It’s not just coming up with a great idea; it’s how you can sell or market or promote that great idea.
Dressing in an androgynous way, mixing up the masculine and feminine, blurring those boundaries – I’m cool with that. No one should ever be limited by stereotypes of gender, just as no one should ever be limited by stereotypes of race.
I am slightly obsessed with beauty products.
I use Spotify to listen to music when I am taking a shower and when I am doing projects.
My parents taught me the importance of telling the truth no matter what.
I’ve learned to use big words. Because I’m an avid reader, I can prove myself as a smart and diligent person.
I believe activism is the true source of change in the world. Pushing to change social structures in communities that you are a part of is critical for making real lasting change.
Girls of color and young women need to be seen, heard, and valued. Schools can help make this happen by including our stories in the curriculum.
Like feminism, I want to create systems and structures for the equity for all people, especially girls and women.
All my friends can probably only name one publishing house, and that is Scholastic; they are everywhere. Scholastic is the perfect partner for spreading my message of diversity, inclusion, and social action.
When you are reading about a book, you focus on the main character, of course. When you have something in common with them and connect with them, you remember the lessons they learned, and then you can apply them to your life. So you can live the best life you can.
If you like reading, you are allowed to like to dance and to like to sing and to like to act.
I think the biggest thing, where my passionate-ness comes from, is that I love reading, and it is something that I really care about.
My passion for books has changed my life.
Black girl stories aren’t just for black girls: they’re for everybody.
I write every day.
It was the desire to see black girls and our experiences in the books that I was given to read at school that forced me to speak my truth. I launched #1000BlackGirlBooks, a book drive to collect the stories of women of color.
When I speak at events, I often wear my dad’s ties and my mom’s earrings. It’s a small, almost secret way of having them with me when I’m up there onstage, talking to a roomful of strangers. It makes me feel safe.
I have had the same friends for a really long time, and I like them because they like some of the stuff I like, but they are also really different from me.
As members of society, we should always be pushing our girls to strive to be the best and to speak up and out about issues we see.
You always need to make sure that you’re looking at every angle and every perspective so that people, when they read the story, know what’s happening. You have to write for everyone.
Fashion is very important to me. I dress androgynously – I absolutely despise dresses and skirts and tights – and I started wearing glasses in the third grade.
Every time I’ve heard Ava DuVernay speak, I have learned so much.
I think reading about black girls if you are a black girl is important. And for those who don’t like to read, seeing yourself in a book can help them learn to love it.
I go to Amazon to browse for things I can then go find at the mall. It’s like window shopping online. I want to touch the things that I buy. I am the kid who still likes actual books, bookstores, and libraries.
My mom was born in Jamaica and has always been around a community of black people, so she encouraged me to get out and act. My dad, on the other hand, is from suburban Massachusetts, so he had not been around a lot of black people.
Yes, you can be passionate about school and fashion simultaneously. The two are not mutually exclusive – one doesn’t cancel out the other.
I am purposeful in how I present myself to the world. I want my ideas to be taken seriously, and so I present myself in a way that allows people to see me and listen to what I have to say.
