Inspire Young Quotes by Sonita Alizadeh

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

— Sonita Alizadeh

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

— Sonita Alizadeh

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

— 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 than anything.

— Sonita Alizadeh

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

— 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 and also…

— Sonita Alizadeh

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

— Sonita Alizadeh

The biggest change of my life was coming to America.

— Sonita Alizadeh

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

— Sonita Alizadeh

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

— Sonita Alizadeh

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

— Sonita Alizadeh

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

— Sonita Alizadeh

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

— Sonita Alizadeh

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

— Sonita Alizadeh

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

— Sonita Alizadeh