Hey Everyone,

I hope you’re having a wonderful day. With everything going on in the world, I wanted to share 20 quotes from powerful black women that are inspiring me to keep working. Each of these accomplished women continues to remind me of my strength and to fight through each workday. Take a look and don’t forget to Pin your favorite.

Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

- Michelle Obama

There is no magic to achievement. It’s really about hard work, choices and persistence.

- Michelle Obama

I write for those who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.

- Audre Lorde

I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that.

- Ava DuVernay

I am not lucky. You know what I am? I am smart, I am talented, I take advantage of the opportunities that come my way and I work really, really hard. Don’t call me lucky. Call me a badass.

- Shonda Rhimes.

You want to be a writer? A Write is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don’t have a job? Get One. Any Job. Don’t Sit At Home Waiting For The magical Opportunity. Who are you? Prince William? No. Get A Job. Go To Work. Do Something until you can do something else. - Shonda Rhimes.

Be Stingy with your time and spend it in spaces that fill you up.

- Janet Mock

We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That’s ok.

- Laverne Cox

“I’m learning how to drown out the constant noise that is such an inseparable part of my life. I don’t have to prove anything to anyone, I only have to follow my heart and concentrate on what I want to say to the world. I run my world.”

– Beyoncé Knowles

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

- Maya Angelou

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time. - Angela Davis.

“You can't shine if you have two lines in the background as a bus driver. You can only shine if you're included in the narrative, and narratives start when you put pen to paper and you use your imagination. You just tell a story. That's all you do. You tell a story. You don't put any boundaries on it. It's infinite and that's the only way we can do what we do is that people use their imaginations so that we can be included in it.”

- Viola Davis

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

- Rihanna

If you have the opportunity for your art to meet activism, you shouldn't pass that up when it comes your way.

- Regina King

“Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that's in us.”

- Angela Bassett