Quotes About Empowerment

There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'

Rag 'N' Bone Man is for everybody, like Wu Tang is for the children.

Cougars are all the rage! I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.

What I don't like is the way people automatically think I am a kept woman, that he pays my expenses. This puts me in a rage. I've always paid my own way, even while living in his mansion. I've kept an apartment of my own. In fact, I not only buy my own clothes, but many of Hef's, too - he just hates to shop.

It fills me with a weird rage to wear shoes that make me not able to walk easily or run if I had to. It feeds into this whole 'war on women' thing in my head.

Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the rage that the crucible of racism created.

We have to take our anger and rage and channel it into building, growing, loving, holding each other up.

It bothered me that women were taught they can't be beautiful just being themselves - it filled me with rage.

Today I have learned how to channel my rage through fashion.

I grew up on the ragged edge of self-acceptance, where I was holding on to it, but it was easy to fall off. But as I found my way inside myself, I've been able to accept my own hair, my own shape.

There's no one who, at some point, hasn't had the feeling their life is on the rails and they can't do anything about it.

I don't want to be oh-so-brag-about-it, but 'The Rain' is hot.

Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.

The U.S. is a rainbow of people with an endless scope of stories. My hope is that writing stories about people of color will become instinctual rather than something to be pushed for.

I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.

No one chooses to raise children alone.

My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

I believe in the power of peer mentorship. When I learned how to ask for a raise, how to fire someone, how to deal with a board challenge - I didn't get that from mentors like Hillary Clinton. I got that from women who were my friends and who had already done the thing that I was doing.

I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there.

I'm determined to raise a strong girl.

I was raised to be independent.

Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.

My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.