Quotes About Empowerment

I quit hanging around people who made me feel bad.

It's quite clear to me I'm not a sexist and I'm not a misogynist.

If you keep telling girls they're less good at science, that will probably be self-fulfilling. But there are quite a lot of women who are good at it.

I wrote a song for Icona Pop which boosted my confidence quite a lot.

I get 'female Kendrick' quite a lot. I'm definitely not complaining. At the same time, I want to be the female Simz. I just want to be me.

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.

Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.

I have absolutely no problem being thought of as an action chick because, quite frankly, very few women have ever done that.

I've done what people have been urging me to do for quite some time. I have finally gagged Piers Morgan.

Truth: I loathe the idea of being hired because of my gender, and I shudder at the thought that one day I show up on set, and half of the crew thinks, 'Here comes the quota hire.'

I fell upon Jenny Saville's work and loved these great big pieces she was painting, celebrating all things flesh and woman, and with great big Simone Beauvoir quotations written in mirror writing so you had to look at yourself in the pictures to read them.

It's embarrassing to quote Gandhi or something, but being the change you want to see in the world is pretty powerful.

I adore quotes.

We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.

If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

I don't want to not be African. The goal is to live in a world where my race doesn't limit my access, where I can see myself represented in the highest level of society without any limitation.

Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race.

I want to live to help my race.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

We encrypt 'Drag Race' with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the '80s.

To me, drag is about doing whatever you want, and nobody says anything. And 'Drag Race' is about doing what you're told and having it evaluated. I hate being judged.

Football is probably the most democratic human activity. It belongs to everyone... to poor and rich, illiterate and educated, to all races, cultures, and nations.