Sonita Alizadeh

I don't like high heels.

— Sonita Alizadeh

When I was being sold into marriage, it was hard to see a future for myself.

— Sonita Alizadeh

I want to study law, become a lawyer, and work in Afghanistan for human rights.

— Sonita Alizadeh

It means so much to me that my family went against our tradition for me.

— Sonita Alizadeh

I saw my friends being beaten because they said no to child marriage.

— Sonita Alizadeh

The biggest change of my life was coming to America.

— Sonita Alizadeh

When my mother told me they have to sell me, I couldn't breathe; I couldn't speak.

— Sonita Alizadeh

I like Eminem's style, and Missy Elliott. I really like M.I.A.

— Sonita Alizadeh

In order to see truly where I am and where I want to go, I need to remember where I once was.

— Sonita Alizadeh

I want to go back to my country to help other girls. We need to support girls to see other possibilities for…

— Sonita Alizadeh

My friends, they get married at 15 years old. I saw them with bruises on their faces. I realized this is the…

— Sonita Alizadeh

Being a rapper as a woman is not a good thing in Afghanistan. I kind of put my life in danger whenever…

— Sonita Alizadeh

My parents tried to sell me. I was looking for a way to share my feelings, so I started to rap to…

— Sonita Alizadeh

It was too hard to understand marrying someone I didn't know. When you don't like someone, if he touches you, it's harder…

— Sonita Alizadeh

A good girl in Afghanistan should be silent, should not talk about her future, should listen to your family, be like a…

— Sonita Alizadeh

My dream has always been to inspire young girls to see their own power and follow big dreams and realize that they…

— Sonita Alizadeh

I don't want to be a musician forever. I want to keep going to school and become a lawyer for women's rights…

— Sonita Alizadeh

My platform for activism is my music, and the issue I am working to address is child marriage. Everyone can find an…

— Sonita Alizadeh

Sometimes I think the most difficult moments in life were actually good because they made me strong. I was a child labourer.…

— Sonita Alizadeh

There is a lot of suffering and injustice in the world, and there is also a great deal of hope. When you…

— Sonita Alizadeh

When I was a little girl, I did not listen to music much. I did not think that one day I would…

— Sonita Alizadeh

There is a great power in speaking your truth and standing for something important.

— Sonita Alizadeh

Music reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can't.

— Sonita Alizadeh

When I'm rapping, I become very emotional, and people can feel it through my face.

— Sonita Alizadeh

There was no giving up. Trying and trying. That's what I'm all about.

— Sonita Alizadeh

When the Taliban was ruling Afghanistan, women were not allowed to go to school, to work, or even leave the house without…

— Sonita Alizadeh

When my father died, I was nine or 10, and my mother was like a dad and a mom to me. She…

— Sonita Alizadeh

I am an activist and rapper from Afghanistan, and I use rap to speak out and help end child marriage.

— Sonita Alizadeh

Every song is a long process. First I have to write a story for it, and then to make it into a…

— Sonita Alizadeh