Quotes About Empowerment

I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

I was very glad I could afford to say no. With the income from my businesses, I didn't need money from acting. I never wanted to be in a financially vulnerable position, where I had to take a part I didn't like.

So is that what's important to you? To be able to freeze in the middle of a scene and to have somebody give you your line? Wouldn't it be much better to go through Africa and show them how to dig wells and how to make vegetables grow and inspire them to plant?

I don't suffer of anything that I lost.

You have the power to think whatever you choose to allow into your head. If something just "pops" into your head, you have the power to make it go away. You have the power to decide that a particular emotion is a "choice" rather than a condition of life. And you have the power, similarly, to choose beliefs that empower you, that bring out your best.

Once you make the decision to keep fighting for change, the range of possibilities for discovering who you are can be are endless. By experimenting with new ways of doing things, you will eventually discover your full potential. By enduring your anxiety and consistently risking your best effort, you will achieve more than you ever believed possible. No, you won't be able to change everything. But you will have realized that you have spent far too long holding back your own potential.

The American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.

I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

I think if our students, if our high school students — if all of the American citizens — knew about probability and statistics, we wouldn't be in the economic mess that we're in today

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

My vision is to hire qualified employees that may have not yet had the opportunity to create a better life for themselves, or did have one but might have came down on hard times and need a hand.

I think a person of colour in any situation should be qualified to do the job. Not just because of the colour of their skin.

I have fought back. From not being allowed to play, I have now qualified for Olympics in two events, it is satisfying. I feel proud.

I certainly hope that we will get more women in power, when it comes to executives and producers and directors, because the problem is not a shortage of females who are qualified to do the job. It's just that women are not favoured or chosen.

As a child I qualified for free school meals, so I know I would have been in one of the families that needed help to gain access to a laptop.

People say, 'You look so great for your age,' and I say, 'OK, you can leave off the 'for your age' part. Can we all stop qualifying it?'

I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn't define herself by the way she looks but by qualities that make her a intelligent, strong and responsible woman.

I have always believed women have so many natural leadership qualities. They just need opportunities and access.