Quotes About Empowerment

I really love, honestly, just being with your best girlfriends.

Skinny-dipping. It sounds wild but I really want to do this in the middle of the night with my girlfriends.

We're very girly, but at the same time, we're very savage too.

I think it's great to dress up and play on all the girly features.

I'm in a sport where people don't look at us like women: they don't look at us like being girls or feminine. But I've been girly all my life, and so I couldn't separate... between the sport and being a woman.

I've been really in touch with my girly side.

I hear that I dress like a boy and that I should be more girly, which I can understand, but I just focus on what I want to do and enjoy my time with fans who love me for who I am.

I've had girls say that because of watching me, they're playing sports. And it wasn't just basketball all the time. I definitely feel like I'm helping the girls get out there and want to play. Especially with my style - it's not always 'girly.' I'm showing they can go out there and hang with the boys.

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

I couldn't change by myself. I needed my faith and belief in Christ to give me the strength to break free and allow people to help me to change.

I do not have to depend on a man to give me bread.

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

Strong brows give me character.

'Give me your poor.' It didn't say, 'Give me your poor who can afford a $680 citizenship.' If I had my way, it would be free. If I had my way, the state would subsidize every eligible application, period.

It's not that I don't want to do commercial films, but if my part is just to look pretty, I'm not up for it. I'd do a role that expresses something. It's not that I don't want to look good, but give me a part where I have scope to perform.

I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.

My success has given confidence to many others.

All work is important, no matter who gives it to you.

I have a huge passion for giving back.

To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.

You're always trying to feel confident and to feel good about yourself, but what it comes down to is really giving up to someone else. Having faith.

Being on 'America's Got Talent' has really helped me expand my self-confidence on the stage and anywhere - I'm more comfortable, and it's just really helped, and I'm glad about that.

I'm glad that in this sport you can write your own stories, and you don't have to worry about what other people expect out of you.

I am glad that people have become more accepting of female characters.