Quotes About Empowerment

I've worked with a lot of female directors over the course of my career: Martha Coolidge, Catherine Hardwicke, Jodie Foster.

I want to encourage young people to have open and honest conversations with themselves, by doing so we proactively work on ourselves and create safe and caring environments that foster resiliency.

I have fought my own battle with depression, and it was important for me to bring a little awareness about it for others.

I believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life.

My mom always told me that I could be anything I wanted to be. And I truly, actually believed it. And I fought.

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.

Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

As your Senator, I always fought the fight for those who could not fight for themselves, and I believe the results speak for themselves.

Bathrooms have always been a big issue in my life. My parents fought for me to be able to enroll in elementary school as a girl, which I did. But I still would not be allowed to use the girls' room under any condition.

When I was harassed and discriminated against, I fought as hard as I could - because I hadn't gone through all of that, I hadn't worked so hard my entire life, just to have someone take it away from me.

Throughout my career I've fought for the rights of women as full and equal members of society.

It's such a shame that you were put in a category of a dumb blonde, but that's what they did in the '50s. You fought the system, but you didn't win.

One day, they told me that due to hyperandrogenism, I cannot compete. I appealed and fought it and came back to win for the country. Coming out was easier than that.

I found by deeper breathing, going into the cold, thinking about it, dealing with it; getting the conviction that my ability to breathe deeper is making connections with my body.

I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.

Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important.

My foundation is absolutely about the women we work with, and they are contributing every day to their families, to their communities, and to the economy of their countries. All we are doing is enabling them to be the best that they can be.

Even when black folks make me angry, I know that the foundation is that I love us. I want us to win, and I want us to have all the things that we deserve in the world. And that's driven by love.

And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.

I was on the board of Andre Agassi's foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told my wife, I want to start a foundation to give back, I want it to be for kids in hard circumstances, and I want it to be culinary-driven, because that's who I am.

We have a foundation, the Soledad O'Brien Starfish Foundation. We send girls to and through college. We started-off saying we send girls to college, but to do so is not enough. Seeing them through college is the key.

Technology is the foundation of the empowerment economy.

I founded DonorsChoose.org because I care about learning, and I believe every student in our country deserves a great education.

I don't want to be the guy that's sitting here, calling somebody and telling them their dream. I want to be in the seat of the founder.