90 Quotes by Ilhan Omar

It's all about the Benjamins baby.

As we continue to perfect our union, citizens, neighbors, coworkers, and family must keep expanding our circles of self-interest to learn and relearn the fundamental truth that we are all connected. The more invested we are in one another, the better all of us ultimately will be.

I grew up knowing that hard things only get harder when you don’t have real conversations about them.

As a refugee who fled civil war as a child, I am still trying to figure out where I fit in - which is perhaps why the most important note I found sticking to the wall outside my office had only three words. You belong here.

The more we listen to and learn from those with different backgrounds and present circumstances from our own, the more we can find connections to our own lived experience.

My kids have been around politics since they were little.

Every student has something to offer, and every student deserves a nurturing learning environment.

I've always said you get what you organize for.

I am not a Somali representative. I am not a Muslim representative. I am not a millennial representative. I am not a woman representative. I am a representative who happens to have all of these marginalized identities and can understand the intersectionality of all of them in a very unique way.