“I'm making a kind of a memoir of certain aspects and times in my life. Now that I'm older I can look back and analyze some things, and see the root of things.” KindMemoir Author:Lourdes Portillo
“Even though I make documentaries, everyone's acting in a way. Really. And you're creating, and you're confabulating things. You can't relive reality, you can just present it. And that's what I do. I have worked with actors and I like it very much, so maybe. I think that would be wonderful to do something like that, as well.” ThinkingRealityActingWonderful Author:Lourdes Portillo
“I'm doing a lot of research right now on what's happening in Arizona. That's where I'm at with more conventional documentary filmmaking. I think it is an urgent cause. I think I need to make something. I'm a part of it. Everybody's a part of it, and this country needs to know what's happening there in a very truthful way.” ThinkingCountryTruthfulFilmmaking Author:Lourdes Portillo
“Having experienced everything one time already made it easier the second time around.” Author:Speech Debelle
“I've always been a MC that wrote socially and politically aware songs, although I listen to all types of hip-hop. This time around I got tracks that make me say "Tupac Shakur would be proud."” SongProudTrackBe Proud Author:Speech Debelle
“I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.” JesusChurchThrowingApprovalComing Back Author:Sam Kinison
“Wisdom is the ability to read between the lines, listen out for messages that the universe gives us. I've been taught that that is true knowledge and that is completely different to the way we are programmed to learn. We are trained to be able to put the right answer with the right question. We don't really have to know the answer.” GivingDifferentUniverseAbilityTrue Knowledge Author:Speech Debelle
“Powerful positions are male-dominated, so it is unsurprising that everything else follows suit.” Powerful Author:Speech Debelle
“More education for women. More jobs for women. More equal opportunities for women. More women to be taken seriously. And I think more than anything we wish to be heard and not to be shut down. I think this is a good thing to think about for any community; what is important is that our voices be heard and not swallowed in an abyss of history.” ThinkingImportantOpportunityWishCommunityTakenEqualGood ThingsAbyssEqual Opportunity Author:Lady Gaga
“I hope to see women thriving and happy, loving what they're doing, and being in control and powerful of what they create. I guess what I would say is, as much as we all love the fashion and the makeup and the glamour, this isn't a beauty pageant. It's about the heart and the drive and the work. Of course, it's lovely to dress up and compliment one another and feel good - but that shouldn't be the very first thing.” HeartPowerfulFashionLovelyFeel GoodMakeupComplimentGlamourPageant Author:Lady Gaga