Top 35 Malebo Sephodi Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Discrimination can be subtle but it undoubtedly exists in the workplace. Corporate culture can be sexist, classist, racist and ableist, and simply having representation without challenging the roots of the ‘isms’ will not get us very far.”

— Malebo Sephodi

2. “There is plenty of work that needs to be done by men to dismantle patriarchy.”

— Malebo Sephodi

3. “May you choose yourself, always!”

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4. “Now that you find yourself here, what are you going to do?”

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5. “What you allow inside of you will settle there unless you find an effective way to work it out.”

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6. “Reinvent yourself over and over and over and over and over until you find home. There is no timeline for the soul.”

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7. “I want to be in spaces where I can just be: be myself, be all I am, be all I can be, be in my fullness and be in all my strengths, my weaknesses and my being.”

— Malebo Sephodi

8. “When you disrupt the existing conditions and refuse to accept anything less than what you know you are worth, you start making those who oppress you so uncomfortable that they will try anything to discredit you.”

— Malebo Sephodi

9. “I want to live in a society where we are all liberated. This is what my feminism looks like.”

— Malebo Sephodi

10. “In nude protests, the very same body that is objectified and subjected to endless scrutiny and policing is used to reclaim power.”

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11. “I do not want to die empty.”

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12. “Misbehaviour does not require a cape, shades or a bazooka. It is in decisions we make that challenge the notions adopted to keep us well behaved.”

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13. “Existing in this era comes with many contradictions. Contradictions because we have so much to unlearn.”

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14. “We should, at all times, insist that we belong to ourselves and have the agency to make decisions about our own lives. Our voices, whether loud or soft, matter. Our behaviour, whether seen as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, remains our choice.”

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15. “Because books saved my life, literally, I’ve become close to them.”

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16. “To misbehave us to denounce the social norms that limit individuals based on who they are. That to make history is to upset patriarchy, a system that is intent on controlling and marginalising others.”

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17. “Accessible knowledge is the best kind.”

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18. “Sometimes a moment of survival is about navigating between rage and joy.”

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19. “If you can help it, do not die bored or uninspired.”

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20. “Sometimes we have no luxury of choice. We must do certain things for survival. That should not stop us from doing the things we love.”

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21. “The most beautiful thing is that despite the shallow life we sometimes succumb to – the soul has no timeline and it knows what it wants and will yearn within until it seeks the journey.”

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22. “I knew there was something wrong when I couldn’t say he or she in my own language.”

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23. “Feels so good to be quoted.”

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24. “Society is obsessed with women’s bodies and I take my body back by doing whatever it is that I want to do with my body.”

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25. “In being everything for everyone, when am I anything for myself?”

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26. “Through Miss Behave I am attempting to reclaim my voice one word at a time and live my truth to the best of my ability.”

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27. “I choose to look to nature and the joys of love to keep me going.”

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28. “In order to validate our Africanness, we hold on to tradition at all cost, banning critical engagement in an attempt to preserve its sacredness.”

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29. “When you live your truth there will always be a form of resistance as long as patriarchy is allowed to thrive.”

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30. “Find art in every single thing.”

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31. “To experience true joy, is to desist from defining happiness through the lens of capitalism.”

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32. “Look within – there is no end!”

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33. “On top of dealing with the emotional trauma associated with conscious and unconscious recalling, you must deal with the possibility of no one believing you or making you doubt your experiences. When women speak out about their abusers, they have to deal with the police and society not believing them.”

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34. “Black Women save lives.”

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35. “It matters that my grandchildren know that I rode a motorbike.”

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36. “Self-love for me means accepting who I am and dealing with the perceived flaws that I live with.”

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37. “I do not care much about speaking in some jargon that perpetuates inaccessiblity.”

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38. “Quote Black Women to keep their words ablaze beyond any fire.”

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39. “It is traumatic to find out that so much of what you have been taught to believe and stand for is actually used to control you.”

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