Quotes About Empowerment

I feel I like portraying women-centric roles, since I can express pent-up frustrations and suppressed feelings lying deep inside a female soul.

For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.

If you suffocate my blackness, you've got to realize that's supremacy.

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.'

There's no such thing as racial, non-white supremacy.

When white supremacy has you down, honey, go out dancing, have as much fun as you can.

When I'm around people having conversations about their day, I'm looking at them, like, 'What could they possibly be talking about? How are we not talking about deconstructing white supremacy right now? How are we not trying to save trans people?'

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.

It was hard to imagine a little boy who looked like me could someday help a president confirm a Supreme Court justice, or even run for attorney general. But here we are.

We made history when President Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, a proud Latina, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. And as the President likes to say, 'Every single one of them wasn't just the best Latino for the job, but the best person for the job.'

There's the phrase of 'making America great again,' but how did we make America great? Who did it? It was Thurgood Marshall who did it. It was Thurgood Marshall who made America live up to its constitution, to its dream. He pushed the envelope to make sure that we were equal.

People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.

Empowering women and girls is the only way to protect their rights and make sure they can realise their full potential.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.

Education, leading to financial independence, has surely made women more empowered.

I shall try and effect all that is before me to perform; and God, I think, will surely give me strength for His work so long as He directs my line of duty.

Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.

If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?

After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.

Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

You could say slowly but surely, the world is changing in a good way - equality in all forms is more and more part of the global conversation, and people are celebrating diversity and individuality.

Labour's mission is to democratise Britain: but first, it must surely democratise itself.