Quotes About Empowerment

The only thing worse for a woman than making herself dependent on a man—'" Nell finishes her sentence: "'—is to have a child dependent on her.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

If a white girl tries to tell you what your brown skin can and cannot wear for makeup, just remember the smile of an axolotl.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Get up, go out into the world, and do awesome shit.

Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.

Better lite a candle than complain about the darkness

I often say that if you see a ghost, face the ghost nose to nose and say "boo." The ghost will run a mile; it's more scared of you than you are of it. When

People say never stand in the shadows of great men. Stand on their shoulders. I say, no: stand in their shadow, kick their ass, and tell them to get out of the way.

Better to light a candle than complain about the darkness.

If its liberation is not human enough to include the liberation of women it will not be liberation

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.

I fight White supremacy by raising my daughter to take up space and make her voice heard in a world that wants to quiet her. Rochelle Rice, musician

liberation is about human flourishing. It is about creating systems that do not limit the ability of human beings to flourish, to reach their highest potential.

The power of Black philanthropy must be multiplied for us to secure the fuel to keep fighting.

I admit that I keep in my mind a romantic notion of an essential Blackness—and I use it as armor.

my recovered glow informs the way I move through the world as a Black woman.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

There's no such thing as merit separated from biography, he had told me. The only question is whether you're going to let your biography hold you down or help you up.

Modernity proclaims rights without in any way providing the means to exercise them.

We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.

What I've learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means "to pull from." Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death...is the true measure of the Divine within us.