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 Read Quote
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. Marley Dias Read Quote
When I was really little, I wanted to be our first woman president. I always knew I want to be the kind of grownup who makes people’s lives better. And since that’s pretty much the job of the President of the United States, it seemed like a good idea. Marley Dias Read Quote
Even though I wear glasses, I’m not just a mousy person who stays in my room – even though I do sometimes stay in my room and read. Marley Dias Read Quote
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. Marley Dias Read Quote
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. Marley Dias Read Quote
If you like reading, you are allowed to like to dance and to like to sing and to like to act. Marley Dias Read Quote
In my class – in all fifth-grade classes – we were required to read ‘classics,’ books like ‘Shiloh,’ which is about a white boy and the dog he rescues. And ‘Old Yeller,’ which is about a white boy and the dog that rescues him. And ‘Where the Red Fern Grows,’ which is about a white boy and the two dogs he trains. Marley Dias Read Quote