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Marley Dias Quotes
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Marley Dias
American
Activist
Born:
Jan 3
,
2005
Black
Girl
Me
People
Reading
You
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Cesar Chavez
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Susan B. Anthony
I think it is important to speak your mind. Tolerance of the ignorance sends the wrong message to kids.
Marley Dias
Ignorance
Speak
Mind
Important
Tolerance
Think
Kids
Wrong
Message
Sends
Your
Social actions means that you find an issue in your community, and you create an initiative to solve that issue or to help people.
Marley Dias
You
People
Community
Find
Solve
Issue
Social
Create
Means
Your
Help
Help People
Actions
Initiative
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.
Marley Dias
Sad
Funny
Character
Happy
Experience
Else
Someone
Something
Feel
Feels
Like
Well
Make
Read
Doing
However
Get
Want
Story
Create
Thing
Watching
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.
Marley Dias
Mom
Me
People
Black
Community
Other
Out
Born
Had
He
Massachusetts
She
Around
Always
Been
Encouraged
Hand
Lot
Get
Jamaica
Suburban
Act
Dad
I like NPR's podcasts because I can listen to those on the bus.
Marley Dias
Those
Like
Because
Listen
Bus
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.
Marley Dias
Fashion
Me
Glasses
Important
Despise
Wearing
Dress
Dresses
Absolutely
Tights
Very
Grade
Skirts
Started
Third
Reading has been a part of my life ever since I was born.
Marley Dias
Life
My Life
Reading
Has-Been
Born
Part
Since
Been
Ever
I've learned to use big words. Because I'm an avid reader, I can prove myself as a smart and diligent person.
Marley Dias
Myself
Words
Smart
Big
Diligent
Learned
Reader
Because
Prove
Person
Use
Avid
Black girl stories aren't just for black girls: they're for everybody.
Marley Dias
Black
Girl
Everybody
Just
Stories
Yes, you can be passionate about school and fashion simultaneously. The two are not mutually exclusive - one doesn't cancel out the other.
Marley Dias
Fashion
You
School
Other
Out
Mutually
Mutually Exclusive
About
Simultaneously
Exclusive
Passionate
Yes
Cancel
Two
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.
Marley Dias
Love
You
Yourself
Book
Black
Girl
Important
Reading
Think
Those
Seeing
About
Like
Learn
Read
To Love
Them
Help
Who
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.
Marley Dias
You
People
Perspective
Looking
Every
Everyone
Angle
Write
Know
Make
Read
Sure
Always
Happening
Story
Need
'Star Wars' is my favorite movie series ever. I like the old ones better than the new ones, but I like all of them.
Marley Dias
Better
Old
Favorite
Favorite Movie
New
Like
New Ones
Than
Movie
Them
Old Ones
Wars
Series
Star
Star Wars
Ever
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