Quotes About Empowerment

The biggest piece of advice I can give to other Latinas is to be confident, strong, and secure in who you are.

Don't let anyone tell you what you cannot do. My whole life I had people tell me 'you'll never do that' or 'you'll never be that.' Things people said I'd never be able to do, I'm doing. I try and stress that to kids. A lot of inner-city kids have an overwhelming sense of hopelessness. I have to explain that there is hope.

It's something that can get overwhelming and frustrating, the sexism I experience in my career. It's just obviously a big issue in women's sport, like salaries, media coverage, just general things that you have to cope with in your career.

At first, Coach Smart was big on not overwhelming me. But I told him, 'My mental capacity is a lot more than you think it is. I can take it.'

I love when an outfit embodies the fluidity of my gender - it makes me feel the most confident and grounded, especially when attending fashion shows, which can be extremely overwhelming.

If you look at a lot of kids from the inner city, there's this overwhelming sense of hopelessness and despair, and I dealt with that first hand.

My journey is self-made because I came from nothing. It's the best feeling now, because I don't really feel like I owe anybody.

This band doesn't owe anything to anybody.

Life does not owe me a shred.

I'm a lot more self-confident than I used to be. To some extent I owe that to my children and my husband.

I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back.

I think you owe it to your kids to teach them how to cook - you know, self-survival.

I don't feel I owe anyone anything.

As for my mom, her biggest gift to me was teaching me I can and I must use my voice. I owe her a debt of gratitude.

'Love Sonia' is very lucky for my career; I owe a lot to it. If I have a 'Batla House,' 'Super 30,' it's only because of 'Love Sonia.'

Owing to cultural beliefs, girls have been taught to be small, disappear and not take our full place in society. But that is not what we are meant to be.

I'm my own boss, you know?

If we don't heal our own hood, who will?

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it!

I got my own back.

I don't want to be owned by anyone.

I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.

Around the world, it is much more difficult for women than for men to run a successful business. Even when laws are not explicitly biased against them, companies owned and operated by women often face discrimination every step of the way, from obtaining finance to finding customers.

When I owned a hair salon back in Houston, I did a lot of makeovers. Women would come in for a new hairstyle and go out with a whole new look. I know what looks good on a woman.