Marley Dias Quotes

Marley Dias

Profession : Activist

Birth : January 3, 2005

I am slightly obsessed with beauty products.

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Anyone can change the world however they want for the better!

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When I get lost in a book, it's just, like, magical!

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Like feminism, I want to create systems and structures for the equity for all people, especially girls and women.

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I believe that feminism needs to teach more girls about how to make institutional changes and how to further engage men and boys into being our allies.

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I write every day.

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Social actions means that you find an issue in your community, and you create an initiative to solve that issue or to help people.

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I think writing gives me creative freedom.

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When I create a story, I can make it however funny, sad, or happy I want it to be. And when I read, I feel like I'm in the story, and I get to experience it. It feels like I'm watching someone else do something, but I'm doing the thing that the character is doing as well.

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For kids in 2nd or 3rd grade, I would recommend the 'Dear America' series. Most of the stories in the 'Dear America' series, if they have black girls, are about them being enslaved, but they escape or do something really adventurous.

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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.

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I like NPR's podcasts because I can listen to those on the bus.

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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.

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Reading has been a part of my life ever since I was born.

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I've learned to use big words. Because I'm an avid reader, I can prove myself as a smart and diligent person.

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Black girl stories aren't just for black girls: they're for everybody.

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I wasn't seeing black girls in the books I was assigned to read at my school. I was tired of only reading about white boys and dogs and wanted to collect books featuring black girls.

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I want other kids to see the joy in reading and literacy and how, if you read about things, they become so much closer, and if you're willing to put in the effort and time and passion, you can really understand them.

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I come from a community that has a lot of white kids, and I notice how, a lot of times, they don't understand our differences and how I come from a different culture and my ancestors are different and my history is different.

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If I meet someone who's Native American and I don't know anything about indigenous people in New Jersey - which I kind of don't, which is not really good - I can learn more and more about their lives, and that makes me a more open person and a more accepting person.

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