Quotes About Empowerment

When I go out, it's to have a good time, not to find a man.

The best way I know to get good work out of people is to create a good environment so that people have a good experience. I try to always hold up my own end by being prepared.

Ekta Kapoor believed that I would do good work and allowed me to explore. I had that support system.

I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved.

Brutal worlds where females are secondary to the action, mere chattels or bargaining counters, may be realistic, but they're not for me. I aim to write women who are genuine.

We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our own lives but reactors.

a woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound and seen in every thing. It was very present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.

The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.

It was necessary to keep our religious masters at St. Michael's unacquainted with the fact, that, instead of spending the Sabbath in wrestling, boxing, and drinking whisky, we were trying to learn how to read the will of God; for they had much rather see us engaged in those degrading sports, than to see us behaving like intellectual, moral, and accountable beings.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.

Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.

The truth was, that he had not whipped me at all. I considered him as getting entirely the worst end of the bargain; for he had drawn no blood from me, but I had from him. The whole six months afterwards, that I spent with Mr. Covey, he never laid the weight of his finger upon me in anger. He would occasionally say, he didn't want to get hold of me again. No, thought I, you need not; for you will come off worse than you did before.

Genealogical trees do not flourish among slaves.

Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free.

If a slave has a bad master, his ambition is to get a better; when he gets a better, he aspires to have the best; and when he gets the best, he aspires to be his own master.

No man whose vision is bounded by colour can come into contact with what is highest and best in the world.

most successful one was that of tarring his fence all around; after which, if a slave was caught