Quotes About Empowerment

I feel - as I'm edging to my thirties, I feel like a stronger person and a more confident person.

At no point in my thirty years have I ever felt truly represented by the fashion industry.

Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.

You hear women talk about it all the time, like when you turn thirty, 'That's when it all came together for me, girl.' Honestly, that's what I feel.

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

For thirty years, I've been hearing that it's getting better for women. And until I see statistical proof over enough years that that's true, I won't believe it.

I write about spirituality not so we get strong from within and achieve some state of nirvana and then distance ourselves from the real world. I write about it so we can feel empowered to doing the critical work that this generation of black women are charged with doing.

I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet.

Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.

My late father Rev. James Thomas McGlowan was the inspiration behind 'Bamboozled.' My father admired Frederick Douglass' courage and his bravery in the face of adversity.

Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.'

Thomas J. Huddleston never cast a ballot in his lifetime but he found a way to lift Black Mississippians up. And that is a legacy I will carry with me always.

It feels like I could go outside with a bikini thong on right now.

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

Anyone who faces any kind of harassment should complain immediately so that a thorough investigation can happen.

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.

We live in a world that is full of problems, and we are the solutions to those problems.

It's important to stand up to all forms of bullying, and it's even more important for those who are around you to be just as courageous and stand with you!

As I have always said, those closest to the pain should be closest to the power.

I have been inspired by Martin Luther King and how he inspired a movement. I have learned that a cause must be organic; if it is to have an impact it must belong to those who join the movement and not those who lead it.

Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista - those models got bunched together. I was always asked to be bunched in there, but I didn't want to be part of the herd. The only one I really had a problem with, though, was Naomi.